The Handbook of the History of English

<i>The Handbook of the History of English</i> is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. <br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems<br /> </li> <li>surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology<br /> </li> <li>offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research</li> </ul>