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.)

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."

Table of Contents

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