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    <subTitle>a historical introduction</subTitle>
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    <publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1993</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xii, 299 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>1. What is language?; 2. The flux of language; 3. The Indo-European languages; 4. The Germanic languages; 5. Old English; 6. Norsemen and Normans; 7. Middle English; 8. Early Modern English; 9. Late Modern English; 10. English as a world language; 11. English today and tomorrow.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Charles Barber.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-291) and index.</note>
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