num_pages: 186
description: 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. Thevolume focuses on the structure of what contemporaries called the General Dialect--its spelling, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation--and on its dialectal origins. The book also discusses the language situation and linguistic anxieties in England at a time when Latin exerted a strong influence onthe rising standard language.
language: English
title: Introduction to Early Modern English
titlecomplete: Introduction to Early Modern English
genres: Linguistics
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Oxford University Press