Sources for Material (History of English)
Note:
Putting together the class notes, I steal freely from four major sources:
- Ian Roberts. History of English. Class notes,
fall 1995, University of Wales Bangor.
- Konrad Sprengel. History of the English Language. Class notes, summer
1997, Universität Bielefeld.
- Johanna Rubba. History
of the English Language. Class notes, fall 2002, California Polytechnic
University, San Luis Obispo.
- Daniel
Donoghue. History
and Structure of the of English Language. Class notes, fall 2002,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
On these pages you find a lot of online information
relevant to the history of the English language:
For the class handouts, I drew from the following material (all else taken
from above sources; for full references to some of the books, see "Readings"
on the very first overview handout):
CLASS 1 handout:
- Map 5 [8.1: "The world's language families"]: Ruhlen, Merritt.
1991. A Guide to the World's Languages, Volume 1: Classification. Stanford,
Calif.: Stanford University Press, 284-285. [ NB: I made this available
as a photocopy; it is missing from the online handout, but can be found in
the Handapparat.]
CLASS 2 handout:
I drew from the following material (all else, taken from above sources):
- "Language Families of the World": Katzner, Kenneth. 2002. The
Languages of the World. London: Routledge, 2-9.
CLASS 3 handout:
I drew from the following material (all else, taken from above sources):
- "Linguistic change in English": Barber 1993: 33-37 [excerpts].