by Albert C Baugh, Thomas Cable · Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780710001054
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«History of the English Language» is the essay on the history of English by Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable, published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in paperback.
The book examines the evolution of English from its origins and through the different historical stages, with attention to phonological, grammatical and lexical changes, and to the processes that led to the formation of modern English.
Third edition, published in 1978; 454 pages, text in English.
Intended for students and teachers of English philology and linguistics, as well as for readers interested in the history of the language.
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.
