2016 Books

Anderson, Wendy, Ellen Bramwell and Carole Hough, eds. 2016. Mapping English Metaphor Through Time. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Anderwald, Lieselotte. 2016. Language Between Description and Prescription: Verbs and Verb Categories in Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English. (Oxford Studies in the History of English). Oxford University Press. [More info]

Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova, eds. 2016. Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson. (Approaches to Literature 25). John Benjamins. [More info]

Biber, Douglas and Bethany Gray. 2016. Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Brinton, Laurel and Leslie Arnovick. 2016. The English Language: A Linguistic History. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Bryson, Bill. 2016. Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language. Penguin Books. [More info]

Butler, Emily. 2016. Language and Community in Early England: Imagining Distance in Medieval Literature. Routledge. [More info]

Cesiri, Daniela. 2016. Variation in English across Time, Space and Discourse: An Introductory Textbook. Carocci editore. [More info]

Chapman, Don, Colette Moore and Miranda Wilcox, eds. 2016. Studies in the History of the English Language VII: Generalizing vs. Particularizing Methodologies in Historical Linguistic Analysis. (Topics in English Linguistics 94). Walter de Gruyter. [More info]

Cichosz, Anna, Jerzy Gaszewski and Piotr Pezik. 2016. Element Order in Old English and Old High German Translations. (NOWELE Supplement Series 28). John Benjamins. [More info]

Crystal, David. 2016. The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Décharné, Max. 2016. Vulgar Tongues: A History of English Slang. Serpent's Tail. [More info]

Deskis, Susan E. 2016. Alliterative Proverbs in Medieval England: Language Choice and Literary Meaning. The Ohio State University Press. [More info]

Evans, Stephen. 2016. The English Language in Hong Kong: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives. Palgrave Pivot. [More info]

Fernández Cuesta, Julia and Sara M. Pons Sanz, eds. 2016. The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: Language, Author and Context. (Anglia Book Series 51). Mouton de Gruyter. [More info]

Gilliver, Peter. 2016. The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Gooden, Philip. 2016. May We Borrow Your Language? How English Steals Words from All over the World. Head of Zeus. [More info]

Horobin, Simon. 2016. How English Became English: A Short History of a Global Language. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Johnson, Keith. 2016. The History of Early English: An Activity-Based Approach. Routledge. [More info]

Kudła, Marcin. 2016. A Study of Attributive Ethnonyms in the History of English with Special Reference to Foodsemy. (Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures 1). Peter Lang. [More info]

Kytö, Merja and Päivi Pahta, eds. 2016. The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Leitner, Gerhard, Azirah Hashim and Hans-Georg Wolf, eds. 2016. Communicating with Asia: The Future of English as a Global Language. Cambridge University Press. [More info]

López-Couso, María José, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo and Ignacio M. Palacios-Martínez, eds. 2016. Corpus Linguistics on the Move: Exploring and Understanding English through Corpora. Brill. [More info]

Machan, Tim William, ed. 2016. Imagining Medieval English: Language Structures and Theories, 500-1500. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Mager, Wolfgang, ed. 2016. The Middle English Text of Caxton's Ovid, Books II-III. Universitätsverlag Winter. [More info]

Millar, Robert McColl. 2016. Contact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English. Edinburgh University Press. [More info]

Moskowich, Isabel, Begoña Crespo, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña Rioboo, eds. 2016. 'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned': Late Modern English Texts on Philosophy. John Benjamins. [More info]

Mustanoja, Tauno F., with an introduction by Elly van Gelderen. 2016. A Middle English Syntax: Parts of Speech. John Benjamins. [More info]

Nevalainen, Terttu and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg. 2016. Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England. 2nd ed. Routledge. [More info]

Schultz, Julia. 2016. Twentieth-Century Borrowings from German to English: Their Semantic Integration and Contextual Usage. Peter Lang. [More info]

Schwyter, Jürg R. 2016. Dictating to the Mob: The History of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English. Oxford University Press. [More info]

Shapiro, Rebecca. 2016. Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography. Bucknell University Press. [More info]

Simpson, John. 2016. The Word Detective: A Life in Words from Serendipity to Selfie. Little, Brown. [More info]

Simpson, John. 2016. The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary. Basic Books. [More info]

Stenbrenden, Gjertrud Flermoen. 2016. Long-Vowel Shifts in English, c. 1050-1700: Evidence from Spelling. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge University Press. [More info]

Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid and Carol Percy, eds. 2016. Prescription and Tradition in Language: Establishing Standards across Time and Space. Multilingual Matters. [More info]

Toswell, M. J. and Lindy Brady, eds. 2016. Early English Poetic Culture and Metre: The Influence of G. R. Russom. ARC Humanities Press. [More info]

Vienne-Guerrin, Nathaline. 2016. Shakespeare's Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary. Bloomsbury Publishing. [More info]

Wiggins, Alison. 2016. Bess of Hardwick's Letters: Language, Materiality, and Early Modern Epistolary Culture. Routledge. [More info]

Wilson, Ross. 2016. The Language of the Past. Bloomsbury Academic. [More info]

Włodarczyk, Matylda. 2016. Genre and Literacies in the Late Modern Period: Historical (Socio)pragmatics of the 1820 Settler Petition. Wydawnictwo Naukowe. [More info]