Routledge Library Editions: The English An Historic Tongue: Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang, Book 19, (Hardcover)

This volume, first published in 1988, represents in its papers the wide-ranging yet coherent linguistic interests of the late Barbara Strang (1925-1982). For her, the history of English and its current state were two sides of the same coin, and the principle theme of this collection is that neither one may be properly understood without invoking