An Introduction to Early Modern English /

An Introduction to Early Modern English / / Terttu Nevalainen.

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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, regio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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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

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