Literature overview

  See also the Reference Guide

Please note that here, as in the Reference Guide, works are listed which are intended as strarting points for students when approaching various areas with the field of English historical linguistics. The list is by no means exhaustive and my apologies in advance to any colleagues who might feel that I have left out a work or works of theirs which they may view as seminal to the field.

The Background to English	Histories of English
Overviews of English	Old English
Middle English	Early Modern English
Late Modern English	Standardisation
Dictionaries and lexical studies	Corpus linguistics
Lexicography	Etymology
Orthography	Pronunciation
Morphology	Syntax
Language Change	Typology and contact
Dialects	English in Scotland
History	Literature
Varieties of English

The Background to English

Histories of English

Overviews of English

Old English

Middle English

Early Modern English

Late Modern English

Standardisation

Corpus linguistics

Dictionaries and lexical studies

Lexicography

Etymology

Orthography

Pronunciation

Morphology

Syntax

Language Change

Typology and contact

Dialects

English in Scotland

History

Literature

Varieties of English