by Christopher Andersen.
edited by Mike Storry and Peter Childs.
edited by Michael Higgins, Clarissa Smith, John Storey.
Simon Featherstone.
Ellen Bialystok.
Rodney Huddleston.
William Johnston.
David Christopher.
edited by Michael Higgins, Clarissa Smith, John Storey.
Robert J. Garmston and Bruce M. Wellman.
edited by Risto Hiltunen, Janne Skaffari.
The English language is at more than one point in its history a language which is being carried from one part of the world to another. This is true at the beginning of its existence as a recognizably distinct language—the phase which this and later chapters refer to as Old English. Migration of people and the consequent relocation of the languages they speak will therefore be one of the …