Preface by Halliday
王宗炎序
Preface by Chomsky
沈家煊序
导读
Preface
1 English Present and Future
2 The Indo-European Fanily of Languages
3 Old English
4 Foreign Influences on Old English
5 The Norman Conquest and the Dubjection of English,1066-1200
6 The Teestablkshment of English,1200-1500
7 Middle English
8 The Tenaissance,1500-1650
9 The Appeal to Authority,1650-1800
10 The Nineteenth Century and After
11 The English Language in America
APPENDIX A Specimens of the Middle English Dialects
APPENDIX B English Spelling
INDEX
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