Date: 03-May-2007 From: Elyse Turr <elyse.turroup.com> Subject: Introduction to Early Modern English: Nevalainen
Title: Introduction to Early Modern English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Author: Terry Nevalainen
Hardback: ISBN: 9780195308464 Pages: 186 Price: U.S. $ 74.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780195308471 Pages: 186 Price: U.S. $ 21.95
"An introduction to Early Modern English," 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. The book also discusses the language situation and linguistic anxieties in England at a time when Latin exerted a strong influence on the rising standard language.