TY - BOOK AU - Alexander,Henry TI - The Story of Our Language PY - 1969/// CY - New York PB - Anchor Books KW - LINGÜÍSTICA COMPARATIVA KW - INGLÉS KW - HISTORIA N1 - Appendix A: Grimm's Law. - Appendix B: British and American Spelling. - Subject Index and Word Index; Bibliography p. 229; Our Changing Language - Some Features of Modern English - The Three Periods of English: The Origin of English and Its Relation to Other Languages - The Old English Vocabulary - The Structure of Old English - The Middle English Language; the Blending of English and French - The Strucuture of Middle English - The Modern Period; Vocabulary - The Structure of Modern English - Changes in Meaning - Levels in Language; the Rise of Informal Language - Other Processes of Word Creation - British and American English; Pronunciation, Form an d Syntax - British and American English: Differences in Vocabulary - Recording Present-Day Speech ER -