A Reader in Early Modern English
Published in December 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 496 pages
978-3-631-34276-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Early Modern English period (c. 1500-1800) - in many respects the most formative time-span in the history of English - is now increasingly attracting the attention of English language scholars. The aim of the present volume is to make easily available to the scholarly public of today some essential linguistic research carried out on that period. The volume includes an Introduction and 30 reprinted articles published between 1944 and 1994. Both British and American English are discussed. The Introduction takes up issues relevant to the delimitation of the concept «Early Modern English», primarily in terms of systemic stability and standardisation. Information on relevant background reading and on computerized collections of Early Modern English texts, literary and non-literary, is also supplied.
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Persons
The Editors: Mats Rydén is Emeritus Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has specialised in the syntactic history of English, the history of English plant names and in Renaissance botany. He is at present working on an edition of William Turner's Libellus de re herbaria novus (1538), the first scientific botanical treatise published in England.
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is University Lecturer at the English Department of the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. Her main field of interest is the history of English, which she studies from the point of view of the standardisation process that the language underwent during the Early Modern period. She is at present engaged in a project describing processes of syntactic change in the eighteenth century from a sociolinguistic perspective (social network analysis).
Merja Kytö is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University. She specialises in the history of English and the compilation and exploitation of computerized historical corpora. Her current research interests include the study of Early Modern speech-related texts, British and American.
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is University Lecturer at the English Department of the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. Her main field of interest is the history of English, which she studies from the point of view of the standardisation process that the language underwent during the Early Modern period. She is at present engaged in a project describing processes of syntactic change in the eighteenth century from a sociolinguistic perspective (social network analysis).
Merja Kytö is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University. She specialises in the history of English and the compilation and exploitation of computerized historical corpora. Her current research interests include the study of Early Modern speech-related texts, British and American.
Content
Contents: Reprint of 30 articles on Early Modern English originally published between 1944 and 1994 - Spelling, punctuation, morphology, syntax, vocabulary - Language and society - Historiography of language - Bibliographical information - Information on computerized Early Modern English text corpora and databases.