The External History of English: Stories of English

Preface



I. Backgrounds to the History of English



CHAPTER 1. English: Its Present and Future

1.1. English Today

1.2. Why is English so Important?

1.3. Strengths and Weaknesses of English

1.4. English Tomorrow



CHAPTER 2. Language Change and History of English

2.1. Language Change and English

2.2. Internal History vs. External History

2.3. Chronological Division of English

2.4. Changes in English

2.5. English is Still Changing

2.6. Reasons for the Study of the History of English



CHAPTER 3. The Pre-Old English Period (before 449)

3.1. Ancestor of English: Proto-Indo-European Language

3.2. Language Families within the Indo-European Group

3.3. Germanic Language Family

3.4. Celtic and Romance Language Families

3.5. Typological Classification of English



II. The History of English: External History



CHAPTER 4. The Old English Period (449-1100)

4.1. Before the English: Celtic and Roman Britain

4.2. The Early Old English Period (c. 450-900)

4.3. The Late Old English Period (900-1100)

4.4. Old English Literature



CHAPTER 5. The Middle English Period (1100-1500)

5.1. The Early Middle English Period (1100-1300)

5.2. The Late Middle English Period (1300-1500)

5.3. Middle English Dialects

5.4. The Rise of Standard English

5.5. Middle English Literature



CHAPTER 6. The Modern English Period (1500-1800)

6.1. The Early Modern English Period (1500-1650)

6.2. The Late Modern English Period (1650-1800)

6.3. Modern English Literature



CHAPTER 7. Expansion of English around the World

7.1. Expansion of English within the British Isles and to Ireland

7.2. Expansion of English to America

7.3. Expansion of English to Canada

7.4. Expansion of English to Australia

7.5. Expansion of English to New Zealand

7.6. Expansion of English to Other Areas



CHAPTER 8. The American English

8.1. Language Variation in America

8.2. Differences between British and American English



Cited Bibliography

Index

이필환 PIL-HWAN LEE is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Keimyung University, where he has taught since 2000. Before that, he worked for Chonbuk Sanup University for more than six years (1994-2000). He has held visiting appointments at the University of Manchester (supported by the British Council Fellowship, 1998-1999) and the California State University (Fresno, 2005). He graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature at Seoul National University (1986), and did his PhD there, too (1993, A Diachronic Study on Word Order in English: The Minimalist Approach).

He is the author of English Diachronic Syntax (1999, Excellent Authorship by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) and Syntactic Changes in English (2007, Excellent Authorship by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism). He was the chief-editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics and was the president of the English Linguistics Society of Korea (2015-2017). His research efforts have focussed on English historical syntax and English grammar. He has written more than forty articles on these subjects.