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1 INTRODUCTION&Suzanne Romaine
1.1 From Old English to New Englishes：unity in diversity?
1.2 1776 and after：an age of revolutions and empires
1.3 Shifting centres of gravity and the notion of a common core
1.4 Language,nation,and identity：staking a claim on the past and future
1.5 Conclusion：a remarkable success story?
Further reading
2 VOCABULARY&John Algeo
2.1 The study of the English vocabulary
2.2 The growth of the vocabulary
2.3 Creating as a source of new words
2.4 Shifting as a source of new words
2.5 Shortening as a source of new words
2.6 Composing as a source of new words
2.7 Blending as a source of new words
2.8 Borrowing as a source of new words
2.9 Recent neologisms
2.10 Vocabulary change as a mirror of cultural change
Further reading
3 SYNTAX&David Denison
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The noun phrase
3.3 The verbal group
3.4 Elements of the clause
3.5 Structure of the clause
3.6 Composite sentences
Notes
Textual sources
Further reading
4 ONOMASTICS Richard Coates
Preamble
4.1 Sources for British names
4.2 Scholarship
4.3 Personal names
4.4 Surnames
4.5 Place-names
4.6 Street-names
4.7 Other categories of nameables
4.8 Academic writings on names
Further Reading
5 PHONOLOGY&Michael K.C.MacMahon
5.1 The soundscapes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
5.2 The historical sources and their interpretation
5.3 Methods of phonetic/phonological analysis
5.4 Standards and styles of pronunciation
5.5 Vowel systems
5.6 Vowel phonotactics(structural)
5.7 Vowel phonotactics(lexical-incidental)
5.8 Vowel realisations
5.9 Consonant systems
5.10 Consonant phonotactics(structural)
5.11 Consonant phonotactics(lexical-incidental)
5.12 Consonant realisations
5.13 Lexical stress
5.14 Intonation and rhythm
5.15 Voice qualities
5.16 Conclusions
Notes
Further reading
6 ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE&Edward Finegan
6.1 Introduction
6.2 First period：mid-eighteenth century-1830
6.3 Second period：1830-1930
6.4 Third period：1930-present
6.5 Conclusions and prospects
Further reading
7 LITERARY LANGUAGE&Sylvia Adamson
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Breaking the standard
7.3 Breaking the pentameter
7.4 The breaking of hypotaxis
7.5 The problem of metaphor
7.6 Self-expression and self-representation
7.7 CODA：the two revolutions and the literary common core
Further reading
Key to the numbered examples
Key to the cited authors
Glossary of linguisticterms
Bibliography
Index
