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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adjective adverbs Alice Lisle American English auxiliary Boethius borrowing CEEC Chapter common consonant contexts diphthong discussed e)th Early Modern English Early Modern period eighteenth century England example forms French functions gender generalisation genitive genres grammatical gender Hart hath haue Helsinki Corpus illustrated inflectional instance John King Kytö Late Middle Latin letter lexemes lexical linguistic Lisle loan words London Lord Maudl means Middle English Modern English period Modern English texts modern reader native negation negative Nevalainen non-personal northern noun phrases Old English passage past participle periphrastic person phonemic plural prayed preposition Present-day English present-tense printed pronunciation Raumolin-Brunberg reference regional dialects relative clauses relative pronoun Richard Preston Rydén Scots-English second-person semantic change sense sentence seventeenth century Shakespeare sixteenth century social southern speech spelling standardisation subjunctive suffix syntactic teenth century third-person singular Thomas thou tion typically usage variation vocabulary vowel Vowel Shift word-formation writing