The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language is one of the publishing phenomena of recent times.
Crystal covers everything from the History of English, vocabulary, and grammar, to spoken and written English, and English in use. The volume comprises 25 chapters:
1) Modelling English
2) The origins of English
3)Old English
4) Middle English
5) Early modern English
6)Modern English
7) World English
8) The nature of the lexicon
9)The sources of the lexicon
10)Etymology
11)The structure of the lexicon
12)Lexical dimensions
13)Grammatical mythology
14)The structure of words
15) Word classes
16) The structure of sentences
17) The sound system
18) The writing system
19) Varieties of discourse
20) Regional variation
21)Social variation
22)Personal variation
23)Electronic variation
24)Learning English as a mother tongue
25)New ways of studying English
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