TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lerer,Seth
TI  - Introducing the history of the English language
SN  - 9781003826088
AV  - PE1075 
U1  - 420.9 LER/Int  23/eng/20231106
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New york
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English language
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society. It first offers a rigorous, approachable introduction to the building blocks of language itself and then traces English language usage's messy development in society, beginning with its origins in the Indo-European language family and continuing chronologically through the Old, Middle, Modern, and present-day forms"--
ER  -