An Introduction to Early Modern English / / Terttu Nevalainen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Nevalainen, Terttu,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language : ETELA
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of figures and tables --; To readers --; 1 The Early Modern English period --; 2 Sources for the study of Early Modern English --; 3 Towards a standard language --; 4 Old words and loan words --; 5 Word-formation and semantic change --; 6 Nouns and pronouns --; 7 Verbs, adjectives and adverbs --; 8 Syntactic structures --; 9 Changing pronunciation --; 10 Language in the community --; Appendices 1-2: Early Modern English texts --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748626366; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748626366
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Terttu Nevalainen.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748615247);An 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 as 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 pronunciation - 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. The volume includes:The major changes in English from the 15th to the 18th centuryEmphasis on long-term linguistic developmentsSources for the study of Early Modern EnglishIllustrations ranging from drama and personal letters to trials and early scienceExercises encouraging further exploration of the changing English language."