История английского языка

London: John Murray, 2011. Изначально электронный формат. Hitchings has a descriptivist view that languages evolve over time. This is in direct contrast to the prescriptivist view that there is one right way to speak and write. He cites historical references for why some things are improper, i.e., ending a sentence with a preposition or the use of contractions in speech and...

Oxford University Press, 2018. — 189 (conv) p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN10: 0198709250, ISBN13: 978-0198709251. The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today? In this Very Short Introduction Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the...

McClelland and Stewart, 2013. — 192 p. There are only two problems with the story of the English language: one, no hero. Two, not rude enough. In The Rude Story of English, recovering lexicographer Tom Howell swiftly remedies these and gives us a rousing account of our language – without all the boring bits and with all the interesting parts kept in – and reveals English’s...

Gotham Books, 2008. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59240-395-0. This is a curious book, being on an academic subject, but not written in an academic style. Enjoyment lies in the lively and vigorous presentation of its ideas. The main topic is the influence that there is likely to have been on Old English (and hence on the language we now use) from the indigenous Celtic tribes and the...