Brinton Laurel J., Arnovick Leslie K. The English Language: A Linguistic History

Oxford University Press, 2017. — 648 p.The English Language is an essential survey of the development of the language from its Indo-European past to the present day. Now in a third edition, this text offers enhanced discussion of the socio-historical and cultural contexts of the English language, new approaches to the history of English, and an anthology of specimen texts from the four major periods of English: Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern.