Introduction to Early Modern English

By Terry Nevalainen

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 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195308476
• ISBN13: 9780195308471
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 5.4"