English language - Reference Works
Understand the major English language reference works, covering historical overviews, dictionaries and usage guides, and studies of language change.
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Which specific volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language was edited by Roger Lass?
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Which specific volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language was edited by Roger Lass?
Volume III
What historical period is covered in Volume III of the Cambridge History of the English Language?
1476–1776
Who is the editor of the revised second edition (2012) of the Oxford History of English?
Margaret Mugglestone
Who are the three authors of the third edition of The Story of English (2003)?
Robert McCrum
William Cran
Robert MacNeil
Which two authors co-authored the 2006 book English: One Tongue, Many Voices?
Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech
In what year was Henry Sweet’s A New English Grammar originally published?
1892
Who is the author of The Cambridge Guide to English Usage (2004)?
Pam Peters
Which four authors wrote Change in Contemporary English: a grammatical study (2009)?
Geoffrey Leech
Marianne Hundt
Christian Mair
Nicholas Smith
Who authored the second edition of The Dialects of England (1999)?
Peter Trudgill
Who is the author of the 2010 work Why Do Languages Change? published by Cambridge University Press?
Robert L. Trask
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Who edited the Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume III, published in 2000?
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Key Concepts
Historical Perspectives
Cambridge History of the English Language
Oxford History of English
The Story of English
Language Variation and Change
English: One Tongue, Many Voices
The Dialects of England
Change in Contemporary English
Why Do Languages Change?
Grammar and Usage
A New English Grammar
The Cambridge Guide to English Usage
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