Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Here is a selective bibliography containing several publications important for the study of English language history.
Contents:
1. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1a. Introductions
Algeo, J.,
Problems in the Origins and Development of the English Language, 3rd ed. (New York, 1982)
Barber, C., J. C. Beal and P. A. Shaw,
The English Language: a Historical Introduction, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 2009)
Baugh, A. C., and T. Cable,
A History of the English Language, 5th ed. (London and New York, 2002)
Brinton, L. J., and L. K. Arnovick,
The English Language: a Linguistic History (Oxford, 2006)
Crystal, D.,
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 2nd ed.
(Cambridge, 2003)
Fennell, B.,
A History of English: a Sociolinguistic Approach
(Oxford, 2001)
Freeborn, D.,
From Old English to Standard English: a Course Book in Language Variation across Time, 3rd ed. (London, 2006)
Görlach, M.,
Einführung in die englische Sprachgeschichte, 5th ed. (Heidelberg, 2002)
Hogg, R., ed.,
The Cambridge History of the English Language, 6 vols. (Cambridge, 1992-2001)
Hogg, R., and D. Denison, ed.,
A History of the English Language
(Cambridge, 2006)
Millward, C. M., and M. Hayes
A Biography of the English Language, 3rd ed. (Boston, MA, 2011)
Millward, C. M.,
Workbook to Accompany a Biography of the English Language
(London, 1999)
Mugglestone, L., ed.,
The Oxford History of English (Oxford, 2006)
Pyles, T.,
The Origins and Development of the English Language, 4th ed. (Fort Worth, 1993)
Singh, I.,
The History of English: a Student's Guide
(London, 2005)
Smith, J. J.,
Essentials of Early English
(London, 1999)
Strang, B. M. H.,
A History of English
(London, 1970)
van Gelderen, E.,
A History of the English Language (Amsterdam, 2006)
1b. Dictionaries
Murray, J. A. H., H. Bradley, W. A. Craigie, C. T. Onions, R. W. Burchfield, J.
A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner, ed.,
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 20 vols. (Oxford, 1989)
Onions, C. T., G. W. S. Friedrichsen and R. W. Burchfield, ed.,
The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
(Oxford, 1966)
1c. Grammars
Brunner, K.,
Die englische Sprache: ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung, 2nd ed., 2 vols. (Tübingen, 1960)
Luick, K.,
Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1914-40)
1d. Readers
Burnley, D.,
The History of the English Language: a Source Book, 2nd ed. (Harlow, 2000)
Treharne, E. M.,
Old and Middle English c.890-c.1400: an Anthology, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2003)
1e. Other
Prins, A. A.,
A History of English Phonemes from Indo-European to Present-Day English
(Leiden, 1972)
Scragg, D. G.,
A History of English Spelling, Mont Follick Series 3 (Manchester, 1974)
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2. INDO-EUROPEAN
2a. Introductions
Beekes, R. S. P.,
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: an Introduction, trans. U. Vertalers and P. Gabriner (Amsterdam, 1995)
Fortson, B. W. IV,
Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction,
2nd ed. (Oxford, 2010)
Lockwood, W. B.,
Indo-European Philology: Historical and Comparative
(London, 1969)
Lockwood, W. B.,
A Panorama of Indo-European Languages
(London, 1972)
Mallory, J. P.,
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth
(London, 1989)
Mallory, J. P., and D. Q. Adams, ed.,
The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture
(London, 1997)
2b. Dictionaries
Pokorny, J.,
Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 2 vols. (Bern, 1959-69)
2c. Grammars
Krahe, H.,
Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft, 6th ed., Sammlung Göschen 2227 (Berlin and New York, 1985)
Kurylowicz, J., ed.,
Indogermanische Grammatik, 3 vols. (Heidelberg, 1968-9)
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3. GERMANIC
3a. Introductions
Green, D. H.,
Language and History in the Early Germanic World
(Cambridge, 1998)
Robinson, O. W.,
Old English and its Closest Relatives: a Survey of the Earliest Germanic
Languages
(London, 1992)
3b. Dictionaries
Kluge, F.,
Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 22nd ed. (Berlin, 1989)
3c. Grammars
Coetsem, F. van, and H. L. Kufner, ed.,
Toward a Grammar of Proto-Germanic
(Tübingen, 1972)
Krahe, H., and W. Meid,
Germanische Sprachwissenschaft, 7th ed., 3 vols., Sammlung Göschen 2232-4 (Berlin and New York, 1969)
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4. OLD ENGLISH
4a. Introductions
Atherton, M.,
Teach Yourself Old English, incl. Audio CD (London, 2006)
Baker, P. S.,
Introduction to Old English
(Oxford, 2003)
Hasenfratz, R., and T. Jambeck,
Reading Old English: a Primer and First Reader
(Morningtown, VW, 2005)
Hogg, R.,
An Introduction to Old English
(Edinburgh, 2002)
McCully, C., and S. Hilles,
The Earliest English: an Introduction to Old English Language
(Harlow, 2005)
Mitchell, B.,
An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England
(Oxford, 1995)
Mitchell, B., and F. C. Robinson,
A Guide to Old English, 7th ed. (Oxford, 2007)
Nielsen, H. F.,
The Continental Backgrounds of English and Its Insular Development until 1154
(Odense, 1998)
Pollington, S.,
First Steps in Old English, Anglo-Saxon Books (Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1997)
Weimann, K.,
Einführung ins Altenglische, 3rd ed., Uni-Taschenbücher 1210 (Heidelberg and Wiesbaden, 1995)
4b. Dictionaries
Bosworth, J., and T. N. Toller, ed.,
An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late
Joseph Bosworth
(Oxford, 1898); supplement ed. T. N. Toller (Oxford, 1921); second supplement
ed. A. Campbell (Oxford, 1972)
Hall, J. R. C., ed.,
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 4th ed., supplement ed. H. D. Meritt (Cambridge, 1960)
Holthausen, F., ed.,
Altenglisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed. (Heidelberg, 1974)
Pollington, S.,
Wordcraft: Wordhoard and Wordlists (Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1993)
4c. Grammars
Brunner, K.,
Altenglische Grammatik, 3rd ed. (Tübingen, 1965)
Campbell, A.,
Old English Grammar
(Oxford, 1959)
Hogg, R. M.,
A Grammar of Old English. Volume I: Phonology
(Oxford and Cambridge, MA, 1992)
Quirk, R., and C. L. Wrenn,
An Old English Grammar, 2nd ed. (Manchester, 1962)
4d. Readers
Whitelock, D., ed.,
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse, 15th ed. (Oxford, 1967)
4e. Other
Cameron, A., 'A List of Old English Texts', in
A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English, ed. R. Frank and A. Cameron (Toronto, 1973), pp. 25-306
Campbell, J., E. John, and P. Wormald, ed.,
The Anglo-Saxons (Oxford, 1982)
Godden, M., & M. Lapidge, ed.,
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
(Cambridge, 1991)
Hill, D.,
An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford, 1981)
Ker, N. R.,
Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon
(Oxford, 1957); reprinted with supplement (Oxford, 1990)
Johnson, D., and E. Treharne, ed.,
Readings in Medieval Texts
(Oxford, 2005)
Lapidge, M., et al., ed.,
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England
(Oxford, 1999)
Page, R. I.,
An Introduction to English Runes
(London, 1973)
Pulsiano, P., and E. Treharne, ed.,
A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature
(Oxford, 2001)
Yorke, B.,
The Anglo-Saxons, Sutton Pocket Histories (Stroud, 1999)
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5. MIDDLE ENGLISH
5a. Introductions
Burrow, J. A., and T. Turville-Petre,
A Book of Middle English, 3rd ed. (Oxford, 2004)
Horobin, S., and J. Smith,
An Introduction to Middle English, 2nd ed. (Edinburgh, 2003)
Moessner, L., and U. Schaefer,
Proseminar Mittelenglisch: Lehrbuch mit Texten, Grammatik und Übungen, 2nd ed., Uni-Taschenbücher 1466 (Tübingen, 1987)
Mossé, F.,
A Handbook of Middle English, trans. J. A. Walker (Baltimore, MD, 1952) =
Handbuch des Mittelenglischen, trans. H. Pilch and U. Siewert (Ismaning, 1969)
Obst, W., and F. Schleburg,
Die Sprache Chaucers: ein Lehrbuch des Mittelenglischen auf der Grundlage von
Troilus & Criseyde (Heidelberg, 1999)
5b. Dictionaries
Kurath, H., S. M. Kuhn, J. Reidy and R. E. Lewis, ed.,
Middle English Dictionary, 13 vols. (Ann Arbor, MI, 1954-99)
Stratmann, F. H., and H. Bradley, ed.,
A Middle English Dictionary Containing Words Used by English Writers from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century
(Oxford, 1891)
5c. Grammars
Brunner, K.,
Abriß der mittelenglischen Grammatik, 6th ed. (Tübingen, 1967)
Jordan, R.,
Handbuch der mittelenglischen Grammatik: Lautlehre, 3rd ed. (Heidelberg, 1968)
5d. Readers
Bennett, J. A. W., and G. V. Smithers,
Early Middle English Verse and Prose, gloss. N. Davis, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1968)
Benson, L. D., ed.,
The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd ed. (Oxford, 1987)
Sisam, K., ed.,
Fourteenth-Century Verse and Prose
(Oxford, 1921)
5e. Other
Johnson, D., and E. Treharne, ed.,
Readings in Medieval Texts
(Oxford, 2005)
McIntosh, A., M. L. Samuels, M. Benskin, M. Laing and K. Williamson,
A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English, 4 vols. (Aberdeen, 1986)
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6. EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
6a. Introductions
Barber, C.,
Early Modern English, 2nd ed.
(Edinburgh, 1997)
Blake, N. F.,
Shakespeare's Language: an Introduction
(London, 1983)
Görlach, M.,
Einführung ins Frühneuenglische, 2nd ed. (Heidelberg, 1994) =
Introduction to Early Modern English
(Cambridge, 1991)
Nevalainen, T.,
An Introduction to Early Modern English
(Edinburgh, 2006)
6b. Dictionaries
Schmidt, A., and G. Sarrazin,
Shakespeare-Lexicon: a Complete Dictionary of all the English Words, Phrases and Constructions in the Works of the Poet, 6th ed. (Berlin and New York, 1971)
6c. Grammars
Abbott, E.,
A Shakespearian Grammar, 3rd ed. (New York, 1966)
6d. Readers
Cusack, B., ed.,
Everyday English 1500-1700: a Reader
(Edinburgh, 1998)
Evans, G. B., ed.,
The Riverside Shakespeare
(Boston, 1974)
6e. Other
Cercignani, F.,
Shakespeare's Works and Elizabethan Pronunciation
(Oxford, 1981)
Dobson, E. J.,
English Pronunciation 1500-1700, 2nd ed., 2 vols. (Oxford, 1968)
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7. ENGLISH IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
Bailey, R.,
Nineteenth-Century English (Ann Arbor, MI, 1996)
Beal, J. C.,
English in Modern Times: 1700-1945 (London, 2004)
Görlach, M.,
Eighteenth-Century English (Heidelberg, 2001)
Görlach, M.,
English in Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1999)
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, An Introduction to Late Modern English (Edinburgh, 2009)
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8. WORLD ENGLISH
Algeo, J., ed.,
The Cambridge History of the English Language vol. VI: English in North America (Cambridge, 2001)
Burchfield, R., ed.,
The Cambridge History of the English Language vol. V: English in Britain and Overseas (Cambridge, 1994)
Crystal, D.,
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Cambridge, 1995), chapter 20
Crystal, D.,
English as a Global Language (Cambridge, 2003)
Jenkins, J.,
World Englishes: a Resource Book for Students (London, 2003)
Kachru, B. B., Y. Kachru, and C. L. Nelson, ed.,
The Handbook of World Englishes (Oxford, 2006)
Kortmann, B., and E. W. Schneider, ed.,
A Handbook of Varieties of English, 2 vols. and CD-ROM (Berlin and New York, 2004)
Kortmann, B., et al., ed.,
Varieties of English, 4 vols. and CD-ROM (Berlin and New York, 2008)
MacArthur, T.,
Oxford Guide to World English (Oxford, 2002)
Melchers, G., and P. Shaw,
World Englishes, 2nd ed. (London, 2011)
Schneider, E. W.,
English around the World: an Introduction (Cambridge, 2010)
Trudgill, P., and J. Hannah,
International English: a Guide to the Varieties of Standard English, 4th ed. (London, 2002)
Wells, J. C.,
Accents of English, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1982)
Series: Varieties of English around the World
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9. THEORIES AND METHODS
Aitchison, J., Language Change: Progress or Decay, 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 2001)
Bynon, T., Historical Linguistics (Cambridge, 1977)
Hale, M., Historical Linguistics: Theory and Method, Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics 21 (Oxford, 2007)
Hoenigswald, H. M., Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction (Chicago, 1960)
Joseph, B. D., and R. D. Janda, ed., The Handbook of Historical Linguistics (Oxford, 2003)
Keller, R., On Language Change: the Invisible Hand in Language, trans. B. Nerlich (London and New York, 1994)
Labov, W., Principles of Linguistic Change, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1994-2010)
Lass, R., Historical Linguistics and Language Change (Cambridge, 1997)
Lehmann, W. P., Historical Linguistics: An Introduction, 3rd ed. (London and New York, 1992)
McMahon, A., Understanding Language Change (Cambridge, 1994)
Milroy, J., Linguistic Variation and Change: On The Historical Sociolinguistics of English (Oxford, 1992)
Samuels, M. L., Linguistic Evolution with Special Reference to English (Cambridge, 1972)
Trask, R. L., Historical Linguistics (London, 1996)
Trask, R. L., ed., The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Edinburgh, 2000)
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