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  1. Algeo, John. The Origins and Development of the English Language. 6th ed. [now in its 7th], Cengage, 2009. https://faculty.cengage.com/works/9781133307273.

  2. ANB - American National Biography, https://www.anb.org/.

  3. Anthony, David W. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Princeton University Press, 2010. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691292595/the-horse-the-wheel-and-language.

  4. Bailey, Richard W. Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language. University of Michigan Press, 1993.

  5. Bailey, Richard W. Speaking American: A History of English in the United States. Oxford University Press, 2012.

  6. Barber, Charles, Joan C. Beal, and Philip A. Shaw. The English Language: A Historical Introduction. 2nd ed. [now in its 3rd], Cambridge University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009228640.

  7. Baugh, Albert C, and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 5th ed. [now in its 7th], Routledge, 2002. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203994634.

  8. Bede, . A History of the English Church and People. New ed., Penguin, 1955.

  9. Bennett, J.A.W., and G. V. Smithers. Early Middle English Verse and Prose. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1968.

  10. Bergs, Alexander, and Laurel Brinton. Early Modern English. De Gruyter, 2017. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sru-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5116128.

  11. Brinton, Laurel, and Alexander Bergs. Middle English. De Gruyter, 2017. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sru-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5144632.

  12. Brinton, Laurel, and Alexander Bergs. Old English. De Gruyter, 2017. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sru-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5144631.

  13. Bryson, Bill. The Mother Tongue. Harper Perennial, 1991.

  14. Burnley, David. The History of the English Language: A Sourcebook. 2nd ed, Taylor and Francis, 2014.

  15. Campbell, James, Eric John, and Patrick Wormald. The Anglo-Saxons. Penguin Books, 1991.

  16. Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. Clarendon Press, 1967.

  17. Clackson, James, and Geoffrey C. Horrocks. The Blackwell History of the Latin Language. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

  18. Crystal, David. CEEL - The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. 3rd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108528931.

  19. Crystal, David. CEL - The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. 3rd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2010. http://www.cambridge.org/9780521736503.

  20. Crystal, David. The Stories of English. Allen Lane/Penguin, 2004. https://archive.org/details/storiesofenglish0000crys/mode/2up.

  21. DNB - The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, https://www.oxforddnb.com.

  22. Durkin, Philip. Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English. Oxford University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574995.001.0001.

  23. Fennell, Barbara A. A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach. Wiley-Blackwell, 2001.

  24. Fisher, John H. The Emergence of Standard English. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

  25. Fortson, Benjamin W. Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction. 2nd ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

  26. Graddol, David. Changing English. Rev. ed., Routledge, 2007.

  27. Greenblatt, Stephen, et al. NAEL - The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 11th ed., W.W. Norton, 2024. https://wwnorton.co.uk/subjects/textbooks/literature/sifs/the-norton-anthology-of-english-literature.

  28. Greenslade, S.L. The Cambridge History of the Bible, Vol. 3: The West from the Reformation to the Present Day. Cambridge University Press, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521042543.

  29. Görlach, Manfred. Introduction to Early Modern English. Cambridge University Press, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139166010.

  30. Hogg, Richard M. The Cambridge History of the English Language. Cambridge University Press, 1992. https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/cambridge-history-of-the-english-language/11736033E53FA1FD5E1AE627BD7227CA.

  31. Hogg, Richard M., and David Denison. A History of the English Language. Cambridge University Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791154.

  32. Horobin, Simon. Studying the History of Early English. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

  33. Hughes, Geoffrey. A History of English Words. Blackwell, 2000.

  34. Johnson, Keith. The History of Early English: An Activity-Based Approach. Routledge, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315758404.

  35. Labov, William. Dialect Diversity in America: The Politics of Language Change. University of Virginia Press, 2012.

  36. Lampe, G.W.H. The Cambridge History of the Bible, Vol. 2: The West from the Fathers to the Reformation. Cambridge University Press, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521042550 Collection:.

  37. Lerer, Seth. Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language. Columbia University Press, 2007.

  38. Machan, Tim William. English in the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282128.001.0001.

  39. Mallory, J. P., and Douglas Q. Adams. The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford University Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199287918.001.0001.

  40. McCrum, Robert. Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language. W.W. Norton, 2010.

  41. Millward, C. M., and Mary Hayes. A Biography of the English Language. 3rd ed., Cengage, 2011.

  42. Mitchell, Bruce, and Fred C. Robinson. A Guide to Old English. 4th [now in its 8th] ed., Blackwell Publishers, 1986.

  43. Mitchell, Bruce. An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England. Wiley-Blackwell, 1994.

  44. Momma, Haruko, and Michael Matto. A Companion to the History of the English Language. John Wiley & Sons, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444302851.

  45. Mugglestone, Lynda. The Oxford History of English. Oxford University Press, 2008.

  46. Nevalainen, Terttu. An Introduction to Early Modern English. Edinburgh University Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748626366.

  47. Nevalainen, Terttu, and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199922765.001.0001.

  48. Ringe, Donald A. A Linguistic History of English, vol. 1: From Proto-Indo- European to Proto-Germanic. Oxford University Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199284139.001.0001.

  49. Ringe, Don, and Ann Taylor. A Linguistic History of English, vol. 2: The Development of Old English. Oxford University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199207848.001.0001.

  50. Schreier, Daniel, Marianne Hundt, and Edgar W. Schneider. The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes. Cambridge University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119147282.

  51. Shakespeare, William. The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition. 2nd ed. [now in its 3rd], Edited by Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus, W. W. Norton, 2008.

  52. Shakespeare, William. The Riverside Shakespeare. 1st ed. [now in its 2nd], Edited by G. Blakemore Evans, Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

  53. Smith, Jeremy. Essentials of Early English. Routledge, 1999.

  54. Smith, Jeremy J. Old English: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2009. https://www.cambridge.org/9780521685696.

  55. Smith, Jeremy J. "On “Standard” Written English in the Later Middle Ages." Speculum, vol. 99, no. 3, 2024, pp. 762-779. https://doi.org/10.1086/730766.

  56. Smith, K. Aaron, and Susan Kim. This Language, A River: A History of English. 2nd ed., Broadview Press, 2026.

  57. Watts, Richard J., and Peter Trudgill. Alternative Histories of English. Routledge, 2005.