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Index
Cover
Copyright
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Introduction
The standard story
The real story
Chapter 1: The origins of Old English
Interlude 1: The Celtic language puzzle
Chapter 2: The Old English dialects
Interlude 2: The rise and fall of West Saxon
Chapter 3: Early lexical diversity
Interlude 3: Understanding Danes
Chapter 4: Stylistic variation in Old English
Interlude 4: Grammatical transition
Chapter 5: The transition to Middle English
Interlude 5: Two Peterborough Chronicles
Chapter 6: A trilingual nation
Interlude 6: Lay Subsidy dialects
Chapter 7: Lexical invasions
Interlude 7: The first dialect story
Chapter 8: Evolving variation
Interlude 8: Well well
Chapter 9: A dialect age
Interlude 9: Where did the -s ending come from?
Chapter 10: The emerging standard
Interlude 10: Complaining about change
Chapter 11: Printing and its consequences
Interlude 11: The first English dictionary
Chapter 12: Early Modern English preoccupations
Interlude 12: Choosing thou or you
Chapter 13: Linguistic daring
Interlude 13: Avoiding transcriptional anaemia
Chapter 14: Dialect fallout
Interlude 14: A beggarly portrayal
Chapter 15: Stabilizing disorder
Interlude 15: Delusions of simplicity
Chapter 16: Standard rules
Interlude 16: Glottal stops
Chapter 17: New horizons
Interlude 17: Tracking a change: the case of y’all
Chapter 18: Linguistic life goes on
Interlude 18: The grammatical heart of nonstandard English
Chapter 19: And dialect life goes on
Interlude 19: Dialect in Middle Earth
Chapter 20: Times a-changin’
Appendix: The location of the towns and counties of England referred to in this book
Notes
References
Acknowledgements
Person Index
Subject Index
The Stories of English
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