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This bibliography includes print sources that went into the construction of this course and might be useful for study this semester or for future reading. It is a sketchy and selective bibliography and is not intended to substitute for more exhaustive bibliographical work on your part. You will find that these sources take you to many other print sources.

• Aitchison, Jean. Language Change: Progress or Decay? Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.
• Bailey, Richard W. Nineteenth-Century English. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996.
• Baker, C.L. English Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.
• Barber, Charles. The English Language: A Historical Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.
• Baron, Dennis E. "Going Native: The Regeneration of Saxon English," Publication of the American Dialect Society 69. U of Alabama P, 1981.
• Day, Richard R. "The Ultimate Inequality: Linguistic Genocide," in Nessa Wolfson and Joan Manes, eds., Language of Inequality (Berlin: Mouton, 1985): 163-181.
• Denison, David. English Historical Syntax. London: Longman, 1993.
• Elcock, W.D. The Romance Languages. London: Faber, 1960.
• Fisher, John H. The Emergence of Standard English. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1996.
• Hopper, Paul J. and Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.
• Hughes, Geoffrey. Words in Time: A Social History of the English Vocabulary. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
• Keller, Rudi. On Language Change: The Invisible Hand in Language. Trans. Brigitte Nerlich. London: Routledge, 1990.
• Lehmann, Winfred P. Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. Third Edition. London: Routledge, 1992.
• Leith, Dick. A Social History of English. London: Routledge, 1983.
• Lodge, R. Anthony. French: From Dialect to Standard. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Robinson, Orrin W. Old English and Its Closest Relatives. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1992.
• Swadesh, Morris. The Origins and Diversification of Language. Ed. Joel Sherzer. Chicago: Aldine, 1971.
• Trask, R.L. Language: The Basics. London: Routledge, 1995.
• Wardhaugh, Ronald. Understanding English Grammar. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
• Williams, Joseph M. Origins of the English Language. NY: Free Press, 1975.
• Wolff, Philippe. Western Languages AD 100-1500. Trans. Frances Partridge. NY: McGraw, 1978.