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Publication details [#26354]
Burchfield, Robert. 1994. English in Britain and overseas: origin and developments. (Cambridge history of the English language 5). Cambridge University Press. xxiii + 656 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This fifth volume of the Cambridge History of the English language covers the English of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, England since 1776, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and South Asia. The large and complex area of pidgins and creoles has been avoided except for the Carribean.
