Introduction to Early Modern EnglishThe period between 1500 and 1700 was the most decisive one in the formation of standard modern English, yet no really comprehensive account of Early Modern English has been available. Manfred Görlach's Introduction to Early Modern English fills a very real need. It provides a thorough and linguistically informed synchronic description of Early Modern English, dealing with its varieties, with writing and orthography, phonetics and phonology, syntax and the lexicon, including sections on problems of language contact and the lexicographical tradition. In addition, it provides a valuable anthology of texts from a wide range of sources: the texts exemplify features from Early Modern English discussed in the main body of the book, and have also been effectively chosen so as to provide something of the cultural background to the processes of linguistic changes of the period. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
12 Model of grammar | 2 |
14 Cultural background | 5 |
Varieties of Early Modern English | 8 |
22 Dating Early Modern English | 9 |
23 Written and spoken language | 11 |
24 Dialects of Early Modern English | 13 |
25 Scots | 18 |
53 Adjectives | 83 |
54 Articles and pronouns | 84 |
55 Verb inflexion for person | 87 |
56 Tense formation | 90 |
Study questions | 93 |
Syntax | 95 |
62 The noun phrase | 102 |
63 The verb phrase | 104 |
26 Sociolectal variation | 23 |
27 Diachrony | 25 |
28 Registers | 27 |
29 The status of English | 36 |
Study questions | 41 |
Writing and Spelling | 42 |
33 Graphemes and allographs | 43 |
34 The historical foundations and EModE developments | 45 |
35 Spelling reform | 50 |
36 Punctuation | 58 |
37 The Scottish system | 59 |
Study questions | 60 |
Phonology | 61 |
42 The phonological system of EModE | 64 |
43 Types of phonological change | 66 |
vowels | 70 |
45 Unstressed vowels | 73 |
46 Consonants | 74 |
47 Transcriptions of specimen passages | 76 |
48 Spelling pronunciation | 77 |
Study questions | 78 |
Inflexional morphology | 79 |
52 Case | 80 |
64 Case wordorder and prepositions | 107 |
65 Tense mood and aspect | 110 |
66 Functions of do | 117 |
67 Concord | 121 |
69 Text syntax and rhetoric | 130 |
Study questions | 134 |
Vocabulary | 136 |
72 The tradition of the dictionaries | 149 |
73 The problem of loanwords | 154 |
74 Loans from living languages | 166 |
75 Wordformation | 170 |
76 Meaning | 181 |
77 Change of meaning | 198 |
Study questions | 208 |
Texts | 212 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Introduction to Early Modern English |
| Author | Manfred Görlach |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0521310466, 9780521310468 |
| Length | 456 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative |
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