Volume 1: The Beginnings to 1066

Introduction
    RICHARD M. HOGG
The Place of English in Germanic and Indo-European
    ALFRED BAMMESBERGER
Phonology and Morphology
    RICHARD M. HOGG
Syntax
    ELIZABETH CLOSS TRAUGOTT
Semantics and Vocabulary
    DIETER KASTOVSKY
Old English Dialects
    THOMAS E. TOON
Onomastics
    CECILY CLARK
Literary Language
    MALCOLM R. GODDEN

Volume 3: 1476-1776

1.     Introduction Roger Lass;
2.     Orthography and punctuation Vivian Salmon;
3.     Phonology and morphology Roger Lass;
4.     Syntax Matti Rissanen;
5.     Lexis and semantics Terttu Nevalainen;
6.     Regional and social variation Manfred G"orlach;
7.     Literary language Sylvia Adamson;
Glossary of linguistic terms;
Bibliography.

Volume 4: 1776-1997
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
General Editor's preface
Editor's acknowledgements
Contributors' acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
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 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 linguistic terms
Bibliography
Index

Volume 6: English in North America

1. Introduction Roger Lass;
2. Orthography and punctuationVivian Salmon;
3. Phonology and morphology Roger Lass;
4. Syntax Matti Rissanen;
5. Lexis and semantics Terttu Nevalainen;
6. Regional and social variation Manfred G^D"orlach;
7. Literary language Sylvia Adamson;
Glossary of linguisticTerms;
Bibliography.

17 avril 2002