Introduction to Early Modern English

by Terry Nevalainen

Book Overview

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 one which varies across time, regionally and socially, and according to register. The volume focuses on the structure of what contemporaries called the General Dialect--its spelling, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation--and on its dialectal origins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195308476
• ISBN13: 9780195308471
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 5.4"