The History of English - Volume 4: Early Modern English

This volume provides a comprehensive account of Early Modern English, organized by linguistic level. In seventeen individual chapters, written by recognized experts in the field, this volume not only presents detailed outlines of the traditional language levels, such as phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. It also explores key questions and debates, such as do-periphrasis, the Great Vowel Shift, pronouns and relativization, literary language (including the language of Shakespeare), and sociolinguistics, including contact and standardization.

About the author

Alexander Bergs, University of Osnabrück, Germany; Laurel Brinton, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Product details

• Assisted by: Alexande Bergs (Editor), Alexander Bergs (Editor), Brinton (Editor), Brinton (Editor), Laurel Brinton (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2017
• EAN: 9783110522778
• ISBN: 978-3-11-052277-8
• No. of pages: 335
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 18 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 580 g
• Set: The History of English
• Series: Mouton Reader; The History of English; Mouton Reader; The History of English
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, English historical linguistics; Old English; Middle English