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    <namePart>Brook, G.L.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Andre Deutsch</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1972</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>The author's aim in writing this book has been to provide the historical explanation of some of the puzzling features of the English language as we use it today. There are introductory chapters on the nature of language from the earliest times of which we any knowledge down to the present day. Later chapters deal with the history of English spelling, phonology, accidence, syntax and the development of meaning.</abstract>
  <note>Table of Abbreviations p. 9.</note>
  <note>Bibliography p. 211.</note>
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    <topic>LINGÜÍSTICA COMPARATIVA</topic>
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    <topic>INGLÉS</topic>
    <topic>HISTORIA</topic>
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