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The Stories of English is a 2004 book by British linguist David Crystal; it traces the history of the English language from the invasion of Great Britain by the Angles and Saxons in the 5th Century to the modern splintering of the language into its modern British, American, Indian, Australian, and other dialects.
Noah Webster: A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. [45] 1809. William Hazlitt: A New and Improved Grammar of the English Tongue; 1818. William Cobbett: A Grammar of the English Language, In a Series of Letters. [46] 1850. William Chauncey Fowler: English grammar: The English language in its elements and forms. [47] 1874.
Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198729136. John McWhorter (2017). Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally). Picador. ISBN 978-1250143785. Hejná, Míša & Walkden, George. 2022. A history of English. (Textbooks in Language Sciences 9).
A Modern English grammar on historical principles is a seven-volume grammar of English written by Otto Jespersen. The first volume ("part"), Sounds and Spellings, was published in 1909; two through five were on syntax; six was on morphology; and seven returned to the topic of syntax. It took until 1949 for all seven to be completed. [1]: 1766
The occasional passionate plea is made to promote HEL—J. E. Graves notes in a 1956 article in College English that proper courses in HEL are necessary for any future English teacher, and bemoans the perceived shoving aside of "language study in high school with non-rigorous semantics and 'learning situations.'" [4] One such plea came in 1961 ...
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain; Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters; Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry; Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries; Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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The phonological system of the Old English language underwent many changes during the period of its existence. These included a number of vowel shifts, and the palatalisation of velar consonants in many positions. For historical developments prior to the Old English period, see Proto-Germanic language.