The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 3: 1476-1776 (Volume 3)

✍ Scribed by Roger Lass

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 687
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language encompasses three centuries of immense cultural change, from Caxton in the late Middle Ages to the American Declaration of Independence and the beginnings of Romanticism. During this period, Middle English became Early Modern English and then developed into the early stages of indisputably "modern" English. This book traces developments in orthography and punctuation, phonology and morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics, regional and social variation, and the literary language. It also contains a glossary of linguistic terms and an extensive bibliography.

✦ Table of Contents

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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VOLUME III 1476 to 1776......Page 2
CONTENTS......Page 6
FIGURES......Page 9
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 16
ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS......Page 17
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 20
2 ORTHOGRAPHY AND PUNCTUATION......Page 32
3 PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY......Page 75
4 SYNTAX......Page 206
5 EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LEXIS AND SEMANTICS......Page 351
6 REGIONAL AND SOCIAL VARIATION......Page 478
7 LITERARY LANGUAGE......Page 558
GLOSSARY OF LINGUISTIC TERMS......Page 673

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;История английского языка / History of the English Language;