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Indo-European

Baldi, Philip 1983. An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University.

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Germanic languages

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Standardisation

Bauer, Laurie and Peter Trudgill (eds) 1998. Language Myths. New York: Penguin.

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Literature

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Cultural Studies

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Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin 2005. The Post-colonial Studies Reader. Revised edition. London: Routledge.

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Barker, Christ 2003. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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Lewis, Jeff 2002. Cultural Studies – The Basics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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Periods in the History of English

Old_English

Alexander, Michael 1973. Beowulf. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Alexander, Michael 1983. Old English Literature. Macmillan History of English Literature. London: Macmillan.

Atherton, Mark 2006. Teach Yourself Old English. Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill.

Baker, Peter S. 2003. Introduction to Old English. Oxford: Blackwell.

Barney, Stephen A. Word-Hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary. Second edition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Bede, The Venerable 1979 [1955] A History of the English Church and People. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Bradley, S. A. J. 1982. Anglo-Saxon poetry. London: Dent.

Campbell, James (ed.) 1991. The Anglo-Saxons. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Campbell, Alastair 1959. Old English grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Clark Hall, John Richard 1984. A concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary. Supplement by Herbert Dean Meritt. Fourth edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Crossley-Holland, Kevin and Bruce Mitchell 1967. The Battle of Maldon and other Old English poems. London: Macmillan.

Diamond, R. E. 1970. Old English grammar and reader. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Fowler, Roger 1973. Old English prose and verse. A selection. 2nd edition. London: Routledge.

Garmonsway, G. N. 1975. The Anglo-Saxon chronicle. London: Dent.

Garmonsway, G. N., Jacqueline Simpson and Hilda Ellis Davidson 1980. Beowulf and Its Analogues. London: Dent.

Godden, Malcolm and Michael Lapidge (eds) 1991. The Cambridge companion to Old English literature. Cambridge: University Press.

Grose, M. W. and D. McKenna 1973. Old English Literature. London: Evans Brothers.

Hamer, Richard 1970. A choice of Anglo-Saxon verse. London: Faber.

Heaney, Seamus 2000. Beowulf. A New Translation New edition. Faber and Faber.

Hogg, Richard 2002. An introduction to Old English. Oxford: University Press.

Holthausen, Friedrich 1974. Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old English etymological dictionary]. 3rd edition. Heidelberg: Winter.

Hough, Carole and John Corbett 2006. Beginning Old English. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lapidge, Michael et al. 2000. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Blackwell.

Lass, Roger 1994. Old English. A historical linguistic companion. Cambridge: University Press.

Lass, Roger and John Anderson 1975. Old English phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mitchell, Bruce and Fred Robinson 1998. Beowulf. An edition. Oxford: Blackwell.

Mitchell, Bruce and Fred C. Robinson 2006. A guide to Old English. 7th edition. Oxford: Blackwell.

Mitchell, Bruce 1995. An invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Quirk, Randolph, Valerie Adams and Derek Davy 1975. Old English literature. A practical introduction. London: Edward Arnold.

Quirk, Randolph and C. L. Wrenn 1955. An Old English grammar. London: Methuen.

Sisam, Kenneth 1965. The Structure of Beowulf. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Whitelock, Dorothy 1979 [1952]. The Beginnings of English Society. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Whitelock, Dorothy 1952 [1939]. Sermo Lupi ad Anglos. London: Methuen.

Whitelock, Dorothy 1975. Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon reader in prose and verse. Revised edition. Oxford: University Press.

Wrenn, C. L. 1973. Beowulf with the Finnesburg fragment. Revised by W. F. Bolton. London: Harrap.

Wright, Charles 1993. The Irish tradition in Old English literature. Cambridge: University Press.

Middle English

Benson, Larry D. (ed.) 1987. The Riverside Chaucer. Oxford: University Press.

Burrow, J. A. and T. Turville-Petre 1996. A book of Middle English. 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell.

Blake, Norman F. 1973. Selections from William Caxton. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Warrington, John and Maldwyn Mills 1977 [1953]. Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde. London: Dent.

David, R. H. C. 1980. The Normans and their Myth. London: Thames and Hudson.

Davis, Norman 1967 [1925]. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Dunn, Charles W. and Edward T. Byrnes 1973. Middle English literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Elliott, Ralph W. V. 1974. Chaucer’s English. London: André Deutsch.

Cawley, A. C. 1970 [1909]. Everyman and Miracle Plays. London: Dent.

Horobin, Simon 2006. Chaucer’s Language. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Horobin, Simon and Jeremy Smith 2002. An introduction to Middle English. Edinburgh: University Press.

Schmidt, A. V. C. 1978. William Langland: The Vision of Piers Plowman. London: Dent.

Lucas, Peter J. and Angela M. Lucas (eds) Middle English. From tongue to text. Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Middle English: Language and Text held at Dublin, Ireland, 1-4 July 1999. Frankfurt: Lang.

Markus, Manfred 1990. Mittelenglisches Studienbuch [Middle English study book]. Tübingen: Gunter Narr.

Matthew, Donald 1992. Atlas of Medieval Europe. New York: Facts of File.

Owen, Lewis and Nancy H. Owen 1971. Middle English poetry. An anthology. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill.

Partridge, A. C. 1982. A companion to Old and Middle English studies. London: Deutsch.

Robinson, Fred (ed.) 1957 [1933]. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Oxford: University Press.

Sisam, Kenneth 1970. Fourteenth century verse and prose. Oxford: University Press.

Sisam, Celia and Kenneth Sisam 1970. The Oxford book of medieval English verse. Oxford: University Press.

Early Modern English

Bailey, Richard W. 1996. Nineteenth century English. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Barber, Charles 1997. Early Modern English. 2nd edition. Edinburgh: University Press.

Görlach, Manfred 1991. Introduction to Early Modern English. Cambridge: University Press.

Kastovsky, Dieter (ed.) 1994. Studies in early modern English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Krug, Manfred 2000. Emerging English Modals. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Kermode, Frank 2000. Shakespeare’s Language. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Late Modern English

Beal, Joan 2004. English in modern times 1700-1945. London: Arnold.

Dossena, Marina and Charles Jones (eds) 2003. Insights into Late Modern English. Linguistic Insights, Studies in Language and Communication, Vol 7. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Görlach, Manfred 2001. Eighteenth-Century English. Heidelberg: C. Winter.

Görlach, Manfred 1999. English in the nineteenth century. Cambridge: University Press.

Kytö, Merja, Mats Rydén and Erik Smitterberg (eds) 2006. Nineteenth century English. Stability and change. Cambridge: University Press.

Mugglestone, Lynda 2003. ‘Talking Proper’. The rise of accent as social symbol. 2nd edition. Oxford: University Press.

Perez-Guerra, Javier et al (eds) 2007. Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed: New Insights into Late Modern English. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Modern English

Crystal, David 1995. The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language. Cambridge: University Press.

Crystal, David 2002. The English Language. A Guided Tour. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Crystal, David 2007. The Fight for English Language. How Language Pundits Ate, Shot and Left. Oxford: University Press.

Truss, Lynne 2003. Eats, Shoots and Leaves. The Zero Tolerance Approacdh to Punctuation. London: Profile Books.

Upton, Clive and William A. Kretzschmar 2003. Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English. Oxford: University Press.

Upton, Clive and John D. A. Widdowson 1996. An atlas of English dialects. Oxford: University Press.

Wells, John 1989. Longman pronouncing dictionary. London: Longman.