--- title: "Lynda Mugglestone, The Oxford History of English — Ranger 2006" description: "The supplied extraction contains only the front matter of this item, not the body of the review. 6 references." authors: ["Graham Ranger"] year: 2006 venue: "Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology" source: "https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/1895" doi: "10.4000/lexis.1895" licence: "CC BY-SA (journal licence per DOAJ; Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology)" licence_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ranger-2006-lynda-mugglestone-oxford-history-english/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ranger-2006-lynda-mugglestone-oxford-history-english/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2006/page/2/) / Lynda Mugglestone, The Oxford History of English # Lynda Mugglestone, The Oxford History of English **Authors:** Graham Ranger · **Year:** 2006 · **Venue:** [Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lexis/) ([Lexis 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lexis/2006/)) · **Publisher:** [Jean Moulin University - Lyon 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/jean-moulin-university-lyon-3/) · **Licence:** [CC BY-SA (journal licence per DOAJ; Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Links:** [Publisher's page](https://doi.org/10.4000/lexis.1895) · [PDF](http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/pdf/1895) · [DOI 10.4000/lexis.1895](https://doi.org/10.4000/lexis.1895) · [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W4241626713) **Citations:** 0 citations (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14) ## Summary The supplied extraction contains only the front matter of this item, not the body of the review. The document is a short book review by Graham Ranger in *Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology* (2006). It covers *The Oxford History of English*, a 485-page volume edited by Lynda Mugglestone and published by Oxford University Press in 2006. The visible pages hold only the title, bibliographic details, the online publication date, the DOI and the license statement. Ranger's actual assessment does not appear: his view of the book's scope, structure, chapters or strengths and weaknesses is missing. So this summary cannot report the problem the review addresses, its method or its conclusions without inventing them. The item fits the library as a pointer to a standard reference on the history of English. Anyone who needs the reviewer's judgement should retrieve the full text through the DOI below and summarize it again. ## Key points - Item type: a book review in the "Book reviews" section of *Lexis*, published by Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3. - Reviewed book: *The Oxford History of English*, edited by Lynda Mugglestone; 485 pages, issued in 2006 by Oxford University Press. - Online since 1 December 2006. DOI: 10.4000/lexis.1895. ISSN: 1951-6215. Hosted on OpenEdition (journals.openedition.org/lexis/1895). - License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0, so the text may not be redistributed or adapted. - The extracted text contains only metadata. None of the review's evaluative content is available. ## Interesting ideas - The record comes with its license, DOI and stable URL attached, so its reuse rights travel with it; storing such provenance per document keeps any downstream use auditable. - The extraction turned out to be front matter only (title, publisher, license notice). A pipeline should notice when a "paper" carries no real body before it tries to extract meaning from it. ## For Mova How these ideas could serve Mova, our small open language model — its files, stages and tests: - **I1** (learn): Tag every training or evaluation text with its source and license, so silver data built from no-derivatives sources can be excluded or kept internal-only. - **I2** (world): Flag a document as content-empty when its world of the text yields only bibliographic entities and no events or states, so answers are not built on an empty base. *Our summary of the paper, in our own words — not its text. The work belongs to its authors; read it at the links above.* ## Institutions - [Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-d-avignon-et-des-pays-de-vaucluse/) — University, Avignon, France · 6 works · 603 citations 📚 Shelves (2): [🎭 Arts and Humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · 17,450 works · [🗣️ Language and Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · 17,296 works 🧭 Topics (1): [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · 2,379 works ## Cite Cite as: Graham Ranger. 2006. Lynda Mugglestone, The Oxford History of English. Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology. The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. ```bibtex @article{ranger2006lynda, title = {{Lynda Mugglestone, The Oxford History of English}}, author = {Graham Ranger}, journal = {Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology}, year = {2006}, doi = {10.4000/lexis.1895}, url = {https://doi.org/10.4000/lexis.1895} } ``` - [← previous Improving English Subcategorization Acquisition with Diathesis Alternations as Heuristic Information](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/han-2006-improving-english-subcategorization-acquisition-diathesis/) - [next → Pragmatic Constraints on Semantic Presupposition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/raheb-2006-pragmatic-constraints-semantic-presupposition/) - [↑ back to papers of 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2006/page/2/) ## References 6 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. BENSKIN M., “Chancery Standard”, in KAY C., HOUGH C. & WOTHERSPOON I. 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Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988: 395-410. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=LASS+R%2E%2C+%E2%80%9CVowel+Shifts%2C+great+and+otherwise%3A+Remarks+on+Stockwell+and+Minkova%E2%80%9D%2C+in+KASTOVSKY+D%2E+%26+BAUER+G%2E+%28eds%29%2C+Luick+Revisited%2E+T%C3%BCbingen%3A+Gunter+Narr+Verlag%2C+1988%3A+395%2D410%2E) 5. STOCKWELL R.P. & MINKOVA D., “The English Vowel Shift: Problems of coherence and explanation”, in KASTOVSKY D. & BAUER G. (eds.), Luick Revisited, Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988: 355-394. [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=STOCKWELL+R%2EP%2E+%26+MINKOVA+D%2E%2C+%E2%80%9CThe+English+Vowel+Shift%3A+Problems+of+coherence+and+explanation%E2%80%9D%2C+in+KASTOVSKY+D%2E+%26+BAUER+G%2E+%28eds%2E%29%2C+Luick+Revisited%2C+T%C3%BCbingen%2C+Gunter+Narr+Verlag%2C+1988%3A+355%2D394%2E) 6. NOTES [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=NOTES) *Updated 29 October 2026*