История английского языка

First edition.

History of the English Language" by B. A. Ilyish enjoys a well-deserved reputation as a

useful textbook that has proven itself in practice. The book provides the factual material necessary

for university teaching with great completeness, accuracy

and clarity of presentation. An Anglo-Saxon grammar is given, a detailed outline of

Middle English dialectology, which is one of the most difficult and

least developed sections of the history of the English language, a special chapter

dedicated to the English language in America and its dialects. The book ends

with a description of the structure of the modern English language, which makes it possible

to directly link the history of the language with its modern state.