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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819694903321

Autore

Nevalainen Terttu

Titolo

Introduction to early modern English / / Terttu Nevalainen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-50141-3

0-7486-2636-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language : ETELA

Disciplina

420.9031

Soggetti

English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Grammar

English language - Early modern, 1500-1700

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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; Appendix 1 Mini-corpus of Early Modern English texts; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

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.