37.1064, Books: The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Wright and Hickey (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 13-Mar-2026
From: Paris West [paris.west at cambridge.org]
Subject: The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Wright and Hickey (eds.) (2025)


Title: The New Cambridge History of the English Language
Subtitle: Context, Contact and Development
Series Title: The New Cambridge History of the English Language
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009205689

Editor(s): Laura Wright & Raymond Hickey

Hardback ISBN: 9781009205689 $180 USD | £140 GBP

Abstract:

This volume investigates the Indo-European and Germanic background to
the English language and then considers various kinds of contact
involving the first speakers of English. It also examines the manner
in which English developed and the structural changes which the
language underwent in this early period.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): English based

Written In: English (eng)



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