TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nevalainen, Terttu
TI  - An introduction to early modern English 
SN  - 0748615245
U1  - 820 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - Literature
N1  - Includes index
N2  - 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. 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
ER  -