An introduction to early modern English /
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| Author / Creator: | Nevalainen, Terttu. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, c2006. |
| Description: | x, 176 p. : 1 map ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5871220 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures and tables
- To readers
- 1. The Early Modern English period
- 1.1. Periods of English
- 1.2. Shakespeare - our contemporary?
- 1.3. Evolution and standardisation
- 1.4. Summary
- Note
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 2. Sources for the study of Early Modern English
- 2.1. Range of evidence
- 2.2. Comments on varieties of English
- 2.3. Early grammars
- 2.4. Texts and genres
- 2.5. Corpus resources
- 2.6. Summary
- Exercises
- Further reading and study resources
- 3. Towards a standard language
- 3.1. Middle English legacy
- 3.2. Fixing the form: spelling standardisation
- 3.3. Elaborating the functions: borrowing and codification
- 3.4. Summary
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 4. Old words and loan words
- 4.1. Continuity and change
- 4.2. Borrowing
- 4.3. Summary
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 5. Word-formation and semantic change
- 5.1. Word-formation
- 5.2. Semantic change
- 5.3. Summary
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 6. Nouns and pronouns
- 6.1. Word classes
- 6.2. Nouns
- 6.3. Pronouns
- 6.4. Summary
- Note
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 7. Verbs, adjectives and adverbs
- 7.1. Verbs
- 7.2. Adjectives and adverbs
- 7.3. Summary
- Note
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 8. Syntactic structures
- 8.1. Larger structures
- 8.2. Noun phrases
- 8.3. Verb phrases
- 8.4. Changing syntactic patterns
- 8.5. Summary
- Notes
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 9. Changing pronunciation
- 9.1. Surprising and confusing?
- 9.2. Some general features
- 9.3. Developments in the vowel system
- 9.4. Developments in the consonant system
- 9.5. Stress and prosody
- 9.6. Summary
- Note
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 10. Language in the community
- 10.1. Widening perspectives
- 10.2. Printing and literacy
- 10.3. Social variation
- 10.4. Urbanisation and dialect levelling
- 10.5. Expansion of English
- 10.6. Summary
- Exercises
- Further reading
- Appendices 1-2. Early Modern English texts
- References
- Index
