2009 Books

Allan, Kathryn. 2009. Metaphor and Metonymy: A Diachronic Approach. Wiley-Blackwell. [More info]

Bailey, Richard W. 2009 (1992). Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Barber, Charles, Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw. 2009. The English Language: A Historical Introduction. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press. [More info; also available from Canto Classics]

Beal, Peter. 2009. A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology: 1450 to 2000. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Bierbaumer, Peter and Helmut W. Krug, eds. 2009. Old Names - New Growth: Proceedings of the 2nd ASPNS Conference, University of Graz, Austria, 6-10 June 2007, and Related Essays. Peter Lang. [More info]

Boggel, Sandra. 2009. Metadiscourse in Middle English and Early Modern English Religious Texts: A Corpus-based Study. (English Corpus Linguistics 10). Peter Lang. [More info]

Brinton, Laurel J. 2009 (1988). The Development of English Aspectual Systems: Aspectualizers and Post-verbal Particles. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 49). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Bromhead, Helen. 2009. Reign of Truth and Faith: Epistemic Expressions in 16th and 17th Century English. (Topics in English Linguistics 62). Walter de Gruyter. [More info]

Bryson, Bill. 2009. Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language. Penguin Books. [More info]

Culpeper, Jonathan, Francis Katamba, Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak and Tony McEnery, eds. 2009. English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Palgrave Macmillan. [More info]

Dossena, Marina and Roger Lass, eds. 2009. Studies in English and European Historical Dialectology. (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication 98). Peter Lang. [More info]

Elfenbein, Andrew. 2009. Romanticism and the Rise of English. Stanford University Press. [More info]

Gordon, Elizabeth, Lyle Campbell, Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan, Andrea Sudbury and Peter Trudgill. 2009. New Zealand English: Its Origins and Evolution. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Gorrell, Gena K. 2009. Say What? The Weird and Mysterious Journey of the English Language. Tundra Books. [More info]

Judge, Gary. 2009. The Timeline History of the English Language. Booksurge. [More info]

Haas, Florian. 2009. Reciprocity in English: Historical Development and Synchronic Structure. (Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics). Routledge. [More info]

Hori, Masahiro, Tomoji Tabata and Sadahiro Kumamoto, eds. 2009. Stylistic Studies of Literature: In Honour of Professor Hiroyuki Ito. Peter Lang. [More info]

Hotta, Ryuichi. 2009. The Development of the Nominal Plural Forms in Early Middle English. (Hituzi Linguistics in English 10). Hituzi Syobo Publishing. [review by Richard Dance]

Jucker, Andreas H., ed. 2009. Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, Pamphlets and Scientific News Discourse. John Benjamins. [More info]

Jucker, Anreas H., Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt, eds. 2009. Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse: Papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29). Ascona, Switzerland, 14-18 May 2008. (Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics 68). Rodopi. [More info]

Kay, Christian, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels and Irené Wotherspoon, eds. 2009. Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary: With additional materials from A Thesaurus of Old English. 2 vols. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Kelly, Richard J. 2009. The Blickling Concordance: A Lexicon to The Blickling Homilies. Continuum. [More info]

Koguchi, Keisuke. 2009. Repetition in Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" ―An Exploration into His Linguistic Artistry―. Keisuisha. [More info]

Korpics, Renata. 2009. The Origins and Development of Canadian English: A Comprehensive Study. VDM Verlag. [More info]

Kovács, Pál. 2009. Early English Fricatives: (De)Voicing: Early Germanic, Old English. VDM Verlag. [More info]

Kristó, László. 2009. The Restructuring of Early English Morphology: Theoretical Foundations and Some Consequences. VDM Verlag. [More info]

Krygier, Marcin and Liliana Sikorska, eds. 2009. Þe Laurer of Oure Englische Tonge. (Medieval English Mirror 5). Peter Lang. [More info]

Lass, Roger. 2009 (1976). English Phonology and Phonological Theory: Synchronic and Diachronic Studies. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 17). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Leech, Geoffrey, Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair and Nicholas Smith. 2009. Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Leitner, Gerhard. 2009. Weltsprache Englisch: Vom angelsächsischen Dialekt zur globalen Lingua franca. C. H. Beck. [More info]

Liberman, Anatoly. 2009. A Bibliography of English Etymology: Sources and Word List. University of Minnesota Press. [More info]

Loureiro-Porto, Lucía. 2009. The Semantic Predecessors of Need in the History of English (C750-1710). Wiley-Blackwell. [More info]

Lynch, Jack. 2009. The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of English from Shakespeare to South Park. Walker & Co. [More info]

Machan, Tim William. 2009. Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Mazzon, Gabriella. 2009. Interactive Dialogue Sequences in Middle English Drama. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 185). John Benjamins. [More info]

Minkova, Donka, ed. 2009. Phonological Weakness in English: From Old to Present-Day English. (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change). Palgrave Macmillan. [More info]

Nakayasu, Minako. 2009. The Pragmatics of Modals in Shakespeare. (Polish Studies in English Language and Literature 30). Peter Lang. [More info]

Nurmi, Arja, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin, eds. 2009. The Language of Daily Life in England (1400-1800). (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 183). John Benjamins. [More info]

O'Conner, Patricia T. and Stewart Kellerman. 2009. Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language. Random House. [More info]

Palmer, Patricia. 2009. Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion. Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Pfenninger, Simone E. 2009. Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions: A Corpus-based Study. (Europäische Hochschulschriften 21). Peter Lang. [More info]

Pysz, Agnieszka. 2009. The Syntax of Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Old English. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [More info]

Roberts, Chris. 2009. Lost English: Words and Phrases That Have Vanished from Our Language. Michael O'Mara Books. [More info]

Rohdenburg, Günter and Julia Schlüter, eds. 2009. One Language, Two Grammars?: Differences between British and American English. Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Runge, Laura and Pat Rogers, eds. 2009. Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650-1800. University of Delaware Press. [More info]

Sairio, Anni. 2009. Language and Letters of the Bluestocking Network. Sociolinguistic Issues in Eighteenth-century Epistolary English. (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 80). Société Néophilologique. [More info]

Sato, Kiriko. 2009. The Development from Case-Forms to Prepositional Constructions in Old English Prose. (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication 88). Peter Lang. [More info]

Skaffari, Janne. 2009. Studies in Early Middle English Loanwords: Norse and French Influences. (Anglicana Turkuensia 26). University of Turku. [More info]

Smith, Jeremy J. 2009. Old English: A Linguistic Introduction. (Cambridge Introductions to the English Language). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta, eds. 2009. Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Tamoto, Kenichi. 2009. Virgin, Virginity and Maiden in Old English: The Old English Words Rendering Virgo, Virginitas and Puella in the Anglo-Saxon Gospels: Their Semasiological Background in Anglo-Saxon Literature. VDM Verlag. [More info]

Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 2009. An Introduction to Late Modern English. (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language). Edinburgh University Press. [More info]

Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid and Wim van der Wurff, eds. 2009. Current Issues in Late Modern English. (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication 77). Peter Lang. [More info]

Treharne, Elaine, ed. 2009. Old and Middle English c.890-c.1450: An Anthology. 3rd ed. Wiley-Blackwell. [More info]

Tremblay, Florent, ed. 2009. A Medieval English-Latin Dictionary: Based on a Set of Unpublished 15th Century Manuscripts, Medulla Grammaticae/Marrow of Grammar, Kept in the British Museum. Edwin Mellen Press. [More info]

Trips, Carola. 2009. Lexical Semantics and Diachronic Morphology: The Development of -hood, -dom and -ship in the History of English. (Linguistische Arbeiten 527). Walter de Gruyter. [More info]

Wales, Katie. 2009. Northern English: A Social and Cultural History. Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Warner, Anthony R. 2009 (1993). English Auxiliaries: Structure and History. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 66). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, Carolyn Collette, Maryanne Kowaleski, Linne Mooney, Ad Putter, and David Trotter, eds. 2009. Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, c.1100-c.1500. York Medieval Press. [More info]

Yasui, Minoru. 2009. Studies on the Language of Pepys's Diary. Kaitakusha. [More info]

Zacher, Samantha. 2009. Preaching the Converted: The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies. (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series). University of Toronto Press. [More info]