Martínez del Castillo, Jesús. 2006. Facts of Speech and Facts of Evolution: An Interpretation to the History of the English Language. Editorial Abecedario.
This test boom is a linguistic interpretation of the evolution of the English language. It is an explanation of the facts of speech which have come out to be facts of evolution thus giving the present state of the language. In this sense, the book is an account of the different states of the language that prompted the present state of the language that we call English. It is not an account of historical grammar but a study which takes English as a unique object in evolution. In this sense the facts of language selected are interpreted in terms of the significance they have in the evolution of the language.
The book pays special attention to two states of the language, the so-called Old English and the present state of the language or Modern English. The interpretation of the different facts constituting changes in the English language is based on the theory of language change by E. Coseriu. The book consists of three parts: the theory of language change, texts of English, specially Old English, and an account of the evolution of the language from Old English to modern times. The three parts are linked with one another.
Index
Part I: Language change
Chapter 1: Introduction to the History of a Language
Chapter 2: The English Language
Chapter 3: The Problem of Language Change in the History of
Linguistics
Chapter 4. Language change: the Problem, Reasons and Misconceptions
Chapter 5: Language Change: the Problems Involved
Chapter 6: The Universal Problem of Language Change
Chapter 7: The General Problem of Language Change or General Conditions for Language Change
Chapter 8. Language Change as a Historical Problem
Chapter 9. The Meaning of Cause in Language Change
Chapter 10. The Overcome of the Antinomy Synchrony-Diachrony.
Part II: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Part III: English as a Historical Object
Chapter 11. Old English and the Related Germanic Languages
Chapter 12. Old English in the British Isles
Chapter13. Influence on Old English: the Scandinavians
Chapter 14. Early Middle English: the Norman Period
Chapter 15. Late Middle English: the Age of Chaucer.
Chapter 16. Early Modern English.
Chapter 17. Modern English: the Appeal to Authority and the Standardization of English
Chapter 18. English in the World Today
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