An Introduction to Early Modern EnglishAn introduction to Early Modern English, this book helps students of English and linguistics to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its historical context as a language with a common core but also one which varies across time, regionally and socially, and according to register. The volume focuses on the structure of what contemporaries called the General Dialect--its spelling, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation--and on its dialectal origins. The book also discusses the language situation and linguistic anxieties in England at a time when Latin exerted a strong influence on the rising standard language. |
Contents
Section 1 | 29 |
Section 2 | 45 |
Section 3 | 59 |
Section 4 | 73 |
Section 5 | 89 |
Section 6 | 103 |
Section 7 | 118 |
Section 8 | 134 |
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