Reading List - Highly Recommended
A nicely-written and accessible introduction to the history of English, tracing its routes back to proto-Indo-European.
Available as an ebook through Athens
A fantastic handbook of key linguistic terms, this book is a very useful one to have handy. It is available as an e-text on Athens, so you can have constant access to it without having to fork out its considerable asking price!
Available as an ebook through Athens
This text, and Word of Mouth, actually replicate some material from each other. This text works better in terms of its clarity of structure – which is very easy to follow. As with anything by Finch, it is beautifully written – bringing breadth and humour into the subject.
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