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The Great Courses: History of the English Language, 2nd Edition
- Item Number
- 420
- Estimated Value
- 375 USD
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Item Description
Sixteen centuries ago a wave of settlers from northern Europe came to the British Isles speaking a mix of Germanic dialects thick with consonants and complex grammatical forms. Today we call that dialect Old English, the ancestor of the language nearly one in five people in the world speaks every day.
How did this ancient tongue evolve into the elegant idiom of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Twain, Melville, and other great writers? What features of modern English spelling and vocabulary link it to its Old English roots? How did English grammar become so streamlined? Why did its pronunciation undergo such drastic changes? How do we even know what English sounded like in the distant past? And how does English continue to develop to the present day?
The History of the English Language, 2nd Edition, is Professor Seth Lerer's revised and updated investigation of the remarkable history of English, from the powerful prose of King Alfred in the Middle Ages to the modern-day sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Great Courses® History of the English Language, 2nd Edition
Taught By Professor Seth Lerer, Ph.D., University of Chicago, University of California, San Diego
Item Special Note
2 DVDs: 36 Lectures, 30 minutes per lecture
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