David Burnley Książki

In this book David Burnley demonstrates that an understanding of Chaucer's social, cultural, and literary world is vital to our understanding of his language and meaning. The first part of the book, drawing on modern linguistics, concentrates on the text and on approaches to interpreting the poet's grammar and syntax. The second part treats Chaucer's language and vocabulary in its broader contemporary context, dealing with language use, style and variety.

In The History Of The English Language David Burnley provides the reader with over fifty carefully-chosen extracts illustrating the development of English from the seventh to the twentieth centuries. Complementing narrative accounts of the subject, it offers an invaluable resource for the study of the various developments which make up the history of the language.