Analyzing Syntax Through Texts: Old, Middle, and Early Modern English

by Elly van Gelderen

Book Overview

This textbook invites the student to explore early English syntax by looking at the linguistic characteristics of well- known texts throughout the early history of English. It shows how that piece of the language fits in to the broader picture of how English is developing and introduces the student to the real writing of the period as you look at the original manuscript version of selected excerpts.
For each text, issues such as the word order,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474420389
• ISBN13: 9781474420389
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"