The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 3Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield This volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language covers the period 1476-1776, beginning at the time of the establishment of Caxton's first press in England and concluding with the American Declaration of Independence, the notional birth of the first (non-insular) extraterritorial English. It encompasses three centuries which saw immense cultural change over the whole of Europe: the late middle ages, the renaissance, the reformation, the enlightenment, and the beginnings of romanticism. During this time, Middle English became Early Modern English and then developed into the early stages of indisputably 'modern', if somewhat old-fashioned, English. In this book, the distinguished team of six contributors traces these developments, covering orthography and punctuation, phonology and morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics, regional and social variation, and the literary language. The volume also contains a glossary of linguistic terms and an extensive bibliography. |
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Contents
ORTHOGRAPHY AND PUNCTUATION | 13 |
PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY Roger Las | 56 |
SYNTAX Matt Rissamen | 187 |
EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LEXIS | 332 |
and conversions | 351 |
REGIONAL AND SOCIAL VARIATION | 459 |
Glossary of linguistic terms | 654 |
| 669 | |
| 729 | |
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Common terms and phrases
Addison adjectives adverbs appear attested bahuvrihi borrowed CHEL classical clauses coinages common compounds construction contexts couplet deadjectival denominal denoting derivations deverbal dialect dictionaries discussion distinction Early Modern English eighteenth century element EModE example expressed fifteenth French function Görlach grammar grammarians haue hyponymy IIIC inflectional instance Johnson language Lass late Middle English later Latin lexemes lexical lexis linguistic literary loan words London Marchand meaning meronymy metaphor Middle English Milton Modern English period native neo-classical nouns object Old English orthography participle pattern periphrasis phrase plural polysemy prefix prepositional Present-Day English preterite productive pronoun pronunciation prose punctuation Puttenham Quintilian relation renaissance rhyme semantic semantic change sense sentence seventeenth century Shakespeare sixteenth century social sociolects sociolinguistic speakers speech spelling standard stress style stylistic suffix syllable synonymy syntactic syntax texts thou tion usage variation varieties verbs vernacular vocabulary vowel word-formation writers
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 3 Cambridge history ebook collection Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the English Language 6 Volume Hardback Set The Cambridge History of the English Language, Richard M. Hogg, ISBN 0521807581, 9780521807586 |
| Editors | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield |
| Contributors | Suzanne Romaine, John Algeo |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0521264766, 9780521264761 |
| Length | 796 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference |
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