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                  EDINBURGH TEXTBOOKS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE                                                     An In
                                      Series Editor: Heinz Giegerich
               This new textbook series provides introductions to the main areas of English                       tr
               Language study. Volumes cover aspects of the history and structure of the                          oduction t
               language such as: syntax, phonology, morphology, regional and social 
               variation, Old English, Middle English and international Englishes.
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                                                                                                                   Early Modern English
                     An Introduction to Early Modern English
                                          TERTTU NEVALAINEN
               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 as 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 
               pronunciation – 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. 
               The volume includes:
               • The major changes in English from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century
               • Emphasis on long-term linguistic developments
               • Sources for the study of Early Modern English
               • Illustrations ranging from drama and personal letters to trials and early science
               • Exercises encouraging further exploration of the changing English language.                       TER
               Terttu Nevalainen is Professor of English Philology at the University of Helsinki, and has          TTU NEV        An Introduction to 
               taught the history of English in Finland and in England.
                                                                                                                   ALAINEN  Early Modern English
                                                                                         ISBN 0-7486-1524-5                                            Terttu Nevalainen
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    An Introduction to Early Modern English
      Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language
      General Editor
      Heinz Giegerich, Professor of English Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
      Editorial Board
      Laurie Bauer (University of Wellington)
      Derek Britton (University of Edinburgh)
      Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
      Norman Macleod (University of Edinburgh)
      Donka Minkova (UCLA)
      Katie Wales (University of Leeds)
      Anthony Warner (University of York)
          
      An Introduction to English Syntax
      Jim Miller
      An Introduction to English Phonology
      April McMahon
      An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and Their Structure
      Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
      An Introduction to International Varieties of English
      Laurie Bauer
      An Introduction to Middle English
      Jeremy Smith and Simon Horobin
      An Introduction to Old English
      Richard Hogg
      An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics
      Patrick Griffiths
     An Introduction to
     Early Modern English
     Terttu Nevalainen
     Edinburgh University Press