The English Language
Volume: 1 Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490–1839
- Hardback
- ISBN:9780521042802
- Publication date:January 1966
- 240pages
- Weight: 0.447kg
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This is a collection of essays about the English language by English and American men of letters, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; that is, until the rise of formal linguistic studies. The writers represented are concerned with the history, the use, the reform or the changing nature of English.
