The Oxford history of English - Mugglestone, Lynda (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006)
1. Preliminaries: Before English / Terry Hoad -- 2. Beginnings and Transitions: Old English / Susan Irvine -- 3. Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French / Matthew Townend -- 4. Middle English - Dialects and Diversity / Marilyn Corrie -- 5. From Middle to Early Modern English / Jeremy Smith -- 6. Restructuring Renaissance English / April McMahon -- 7. Mapping Change in Tudor English / Terttu Nevalainen -- 8. The Babel of Renaissance English -- 9. English at the Onset of the normative tradition -- 10. English in the Nineteenth Century / Lynda Mugglestone -- 11. Modern Regional English in the British Isles / Clive Upton -- 12. English Among the Languages / Richard W. Bailey -- 13. English Worldwide in the Twentieth Century / Tom McArthur -- 14. Into the Twenty-first Century / David Crystal.
Includes bibliographical references (p [433]-471) and index
Keywords: Anglais (Langue) -- Histoire; English language -- History