by Albert C. Baugh, Thomas Cable · Routledge · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780415050739
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«A History of the English Language» is the reference work on the history of the English language by Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable, published by Routledge in paperback (464 pages, in English).
The book traces the evolution of English from its Germanic origins to the modern era, attending to linguistic changes and the historical and social factors that drove them. It covers the development of Old, Middle and Modern English, with attention to grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
Third edition, published in 1990, of a classic manual originally appearing in 1951.
Suitable for students of English philology, historical linguistics and those needing a standard university manual.
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Albert Croll Baugh was a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, best known as the author of a textbook for History of the English language (HEL). His A History of the English Language was first published in 1935 and praised as "worthy to take a place with the other great histories of single languages". It was revised by Baugh for a second edition published in 1957 and it remains in print, edited by Thomas Cable.
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