From Old English to Standard English: A Course Book in Language Variation Across Time

By Dennis Freeborn

This practical course book explores the development of the language from Old English to the establishment of Standard English. This third edition has been expanded to provide further background information, with a supplementary website and new sections to outline the development of writing hands and provide a brief introduction to palaeography.

Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/from-old-english-to-standard-english. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403998809
• ISBN13: 9781403998804
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent hands-on approach

Freeborn's book presents a very useful hands-on approach to the evolution of the English language. He provides lots of REAL texts (including many in facsimile form) in the various dialects of Old English, and so on. At once, the reader feels that the subject is not really as remote as he or she might have imagined. This makes the book very useful as a textbook or a source book for a course introducing students to the history of the English language. I have just received a flyer announcing the arrival of an expanded second edition (due mid 1998), and am therefore looking forward to reading it.