Introduction to Early Modern English

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Cambridge University Press, 26.07.1991 - 456 Seiten
The 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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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
T1T66
215
Sources of shorter texts
406
Bibliographical notes on texts T1T66
409
Bibliography
429
Index of persons
444
Index of topics
448
Index of selected words
455
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