2012 Books

Bailey, Richard W. 2012. Speaking American: A History of English in the United States. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Baker, Peter S. 2012. Introduction to Old English. 3rd edition. Wiley-Blackwell. [More info]

Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable. 2012. A History of the English Language. 6th ed. Routledge. [More info]

Bergs, Alexander and Laurel J. Brinton, eds. 2012. English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook. 2 vols. Walter de Gruyter. [More info]

Busse, Ulrich and Axel Hübler, eds. 2012. Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A Contribution to Historical Pragmatics. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 220). John Benjamins. [More info]

Calle Martín, Javier and Antonio Miranda-García, eds. 2012. The Middle English Version of De Viribus Herbarum (GUL MS Hunter 497, ff. 1r-92r): Edition and Philological Study. (Late Middle English Texts 2). Peter Lang. [More info]

Canning, Patricia. 2012. Style in the Renaissance: Language and Ideology in Early Modern England. (Advances in Stylistics). Continuum. [More info]

Cesiri, Daniela. 2012. Nineteenth-Century Irish English: A Corpus-Based Linguistic and Discursive Analysis. Edwin Mellen Press. [More info]

Chevalier, Sarah and Thomas Honneger, eds. Words, Words, Words: Philology and Beyond. Festschrift for Andreas Fischer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Narr Francke Attempto. [More info]

Coleman, Julie. 2012. The Life of Slang. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Coley, David K. 2012. The Wheel of Language: Representing Speech in Middle English Poetry, 1377-1422. Syracuse University Press. [More info]

Considine, John, ed. 2012. Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers. Vol. 4: The Seventeenth Century. Ashgate Publishing. [More info]

Crystal, David. 2012. Spell it Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling. Profile Books. [More info]

Denison, David, Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Chris McCully and Emma Moore, eds. with the assistance of Ayumi Miura. 2012. Analysing Older English. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

De Smet, Hendrik. 2012. Spreading Patterns: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation. (Oxford Studies in the History of English). Oxford University Press. [More info]

Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti, eds. 2012. Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 218). John Benjamins. [More info]

Esquibel, Joanna and Anna Wojtys, eds. 2012. Explorations in the English Language: Middle Ages and Beyond. Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Welna on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 35). Peter Lang. [More info]

Evans, Bryan. Plain English: A Wealth of Words. Anglo-Saxon Books. [More info]

Forsyth, Mark. 2012. The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt through the Lost Words of the English Language. Icon Books. [More info]

Franzen, Christine, ed. 2012. Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers. Vol. 1: Old English. Ashgate Publishing. [More info]

Franzen, Christine, ed. 2012. Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers. Vol. 2: Middle English. Ashgate Publishing. [More info]

Fulk, R. D. 2012. An Introduction to Middle English: Grammar and Texts. Broadview Press. [More info]

Furiassi, Cristiano, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González, eds. 2012. The Anglicization of European Lexis. John Benjamins. [More info]

Gramley, Stephan. 2012. The History of English: An Introduction. Routledge. [More info; see also the companion website]

Hackert, Stephanie. 2012. The Emergence of the English Native Speaker: A Chapter in Nineteenth-Century Linguistic Thought. (Language and Social Processes 4). Walter de Gruyter. [More info]

Hegedűs, Irén and Alexandra Fodor, eds. 2012. English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 325). John Benjamins. [More info]

Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel and Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, eds. 2012. The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics. Wiley-Blackwell. [More info]

Hickey, Raymond, ed. 2012. Standards of English: Codified Varieties around the World. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Hogg, Richard. 2012. An Introduction to Old English. 2nd ed. revised by Rhona Alcorn. (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language). Edinburgh University Press. [More info]

Horobin, Simon. 2012. Chaucer's Language. 2nd ed. Palgrave Macmilan. [More info]

Kelly, James and Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, eds. 2012. Irish and English: Essays on the Irish Linguistic and Cultural Frontier, 1600-1900. Four Courts Press. [More info]

Kytö, Merja, ed. 2012. English Corpus Linguistics: Crossing Paths. (Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics 76). Rodopi. [More info]

Lange, Claudia, Beatrix Weber and Göran Wolf, eds. 2012. Communicative Spaces: Variation, Contact and Change. Papers in Honour of Ursula Schaefer. Peter Lang. [More info]

Los, Bettelou, Corrien Blom, Geert Booij, Marion Elenbaas and Ans van Kemenade. 2012. Morphosyntactic Change: A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 134). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Lutzky, Ursula. 2012. Discourse Markers in Early Modern English. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 227). John Benjamins. [More info]

Mahlberg, Michaela. 2012. Corpus Stylistics and Dickens' Fiction. Routledge. [More info]

Markus, Manfred, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson, eds. 2012. Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A Multi-dimensional Approach. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 50). John Benjamins. [More info]

Martín Arista, Javier, Roberto Torre Alonso, Andrés Canga Alonso and Inmaculada Medina Barco, eds. 2012. Convergent Approaches to Mediaeval English Language and Literature: Selected Papers from the 22nd Conference of SELIM. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [More info]

Millar, Robert McColl. 2012. English Historical Sociolinguistics. (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced). Edinburgh University Press. [More info]

McConchie, Roderick, ed. 2012. Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers. Vol. 3: The Sixteenth Century. Ashgate Publishing. [More info]

McDermott, Anne C., ed. 2012. Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers. Vol. 5: The Eighteenth Century. Ashgate Publishing. [More info]

Meurman-Solin, Anneli, María José López-Couso and Bettelou Los, eds. 2012. Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English. (Oxford Studies in the History of English 1). Oxford University Press. [More info]

Miller, D. Gary. 2012. External Influences on English: From Its Beginnings to the Renaissance. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Millward, C. M. and Mary Hayes. 2012. A Biography of the English Language. 3rd ed. Cengage. [More info]

Milroy, James and Lesly Milroy. 2012. Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English. (Routledge Linguistics Classics). Re-issued edition. Routledge. [More info]

Möhlig-Falke, Ruth.2012. The Early English Impersonal Construction: An Analysis of Verbal and Constructional Meaning. (Oxford Studies in the History of English). Oxford University Press. [More info]

Molencki, Rafał. 2012. Causal Conjunctions in Medieval English: A Corpus-based Study of Grammaticalization. Uniwersytet Śląski; Oficyna Wydawnicza.

Momma, Haruko. 2012. From Philology to English Studies: Language and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Moskowich, Isabel. 2012. Language Contact and Vocabulary Enrichment: Scandinavian Elements in Middle English. (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 34). Peter Lang. [More info]

Moskowich, Isabel and Begoña Crespo, eds. 2012. Astronomy 'playne and simple': The Writing of Science Between 1700 and 1900. John Benjamins. [More info]

Mugglestone, Lynda, ed. 2012. The Oxford History of English. Revised ed. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Nevalainen, Terttu and Elizabeth Closs Traugott, eds. 2012. The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics). Oxford University Press. [More info; see also the companion website]

Nunberg, Geoffrey. 2012. Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years. PublicAffairs. [More info]

Ogilvie, Sarah. 2012. Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Patten, Amanda. 2012. The English it-Cleft: A Constructional Account and a Diachronic Investigation. (Topics in English Linguistics 79). Walter de Gruyter. [More info]

Piercy, Joseph. 2012. The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language. Michael O'Mara Books Ltd. [More info]

Ronan, Patricia. 2012. Make Peace and Take Victory: Support Verb Constructions in Old English in Comparison with Old Irish. (NOWELE Supplement Series 24). John Benjamns. [More info]

Sauer, Hans and Gaby Waxenberger, eds. 2012. English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume II: Words, Texts and Genres. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 324). John Benjamins. [More info]

Schultz, Julia. 2012. Twentieth Century Borrowings from French to English: Their Reception and Development. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [More info]

Scragg, Donald. 2012. A Conspectus of Scribal Hands Writing English, 960-1100. (Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies). Boydell & Brewer. [More info]

Shinkawa, Seiji. 2012. Unhistorical Gender Assignment in Layamon's Brut: A Case Study of a Late Stage in the Development of Grammatical Gender toward its Ultimate Loss. (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication 156). Peter Lang. [More info]

Skinner, David. 2012. The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published. HarperCollins. [More info]

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt. 2012. Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects: A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectology. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Tagliamonte, Sali A. 2012. Roots of English: Exploring the History of Dialects. Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Thim, Stefan. 2012. Phrasal Verbs: The English Verb-Particle Construction and its History. (Topics in English Linguistics 78). Walter de Gruyter. [More info]

Tizón-Couto, David. 2012. Left Dislocation in English: A Functional-Discoursal Approach. (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication 143). Peter Lang. [More info]

Treharne, Elaine. 2012. Living through Conquest: The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Tyler, E. M., ed. 2012. Conceptualising Multilingualism in England, c.800 - c.1250. Brepols. [More info]

van Linden, An. 2012. Modal Adjectives: English Deontic and Evaluative Constructions in Diachrony and Synchrony. (Topics in English Linguistics 75). Walter de Gruyter. [More info]

Vázquez, Nila, ed. 2012. Creation and Use of Historical English Corpora in Spain. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [More info]

Viereck, Wolfgang, ed. 2012. English Past and Present: Selected Papers from the IAUPE Malta Conference in 2010. (Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics 55). Peter Lang. [More info]