The English language - Crystal, David; Bolton, W.F.; Orwell, George; Hall, Fitzedward; Bloch, Bernard; Lees, R.B.; Sledd, James; Partridge, Eric; Mencken, H.L.; Richards, I.A.; Ekwall, Eilert; Burgess, Anthony; et al. (Cambridge : Cambridge University, 1969)
T.2. Essays by linguists and men of letters 1858-1964 -- Saxon-English / Charles Dickens -- Words, logic and grammar / Henry Sweet -- English rational and irrational / Fitzedward Hall -- Slang in America / Walt Whitman -- General explanations / J.A.H. Murray -- A plea for speech nationalisation / George Bernard Shaw -- The society's work / Robert Bridges -- Broadcast English / A. Lloyd James -- Needed words / Logan Pearsall Smith -- Language / Edward Sapir -- The structure of learned words / Leonard Bloomfield -- The value of place-name study / Eilert Ekwall -- The interinanimation of words / I.A. Richards -- Slang / Eric Partridge -- The social significance of differences in language practice and the obligation of the schools / C.C. Fries -- Politics and the English language / George Orwell -- English verb inflection / Bernard Bloch -- English or American? / H.L. Mencken -- A multiply ambiguous adjectival construction in English / R.B. Lees -- Introduction from The pronunciation of English in the United States / H. Kurath, R.I. McDavid -- The lexicographer's unesay chair / James Sledd -- Words / Anthony Burgess
Keywords: Lenguas; Historia; Lingüística; Lingüística comparativa y diacrónica; Inglés