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As evidenced by Greaves’s exercise in Chapter 2, parts of speech are the most enduring categories in Western grammatical thinking. The English language has been greatly transformed over the centuries.

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But how did the speakers’ and writers’ conscious efforts to enrich the vernacular affect the basic lexical resources of their language? book Chapter...As noted in the previous chapter when looking at Shakespeare’s lexical innovations, new words can be formed from existing ones by various word-formation processes.

0000049100 00000 n The benefit of word-formation as a means of vocabulary enrichment is that the resulting words are transparent in form.

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on JSTOR. In this chapter the traditional term English verbs have changed more than nouns between the fifteenth century and the present day. 0000051362 00000 n This was one of the reasons why many writers and translators in the sixteenth century were against excessive foreign borrowing and promoted native means of word-formation as the basis for creating new...Tudor and Stuart schoolboys would have been quite familiar with the grammatical concepts to be discussed in this chapter.

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All Rights Reserved. trailer <<00969BF177EB4C6685DD5938B330798D>]/Prev 200454>> startxref 0 %%EOF 78 0 obj <>stream Many historians divide the Modern English period further into Early and Late Modern English with 1700 as a dividing line. 0000001469 00000 n `nFx]��CZh��h��Jx]��1[z��h؂~V�G7%H��IY�\��=�� IU�.W��g1��9��KJ��&�`Y��Y��r�X�KQw�&��vrjG�%a�B헝5[;;� %PDF-1.4 %�� One such peak for the English language was the Early Modern period of the 16th to 18th Century, a period sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of English Literature (other peaks include the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th Century, and the computer and digital age of the late 20th Century, which is still continuing today). 0000097775 00000 n

Raymond Hickey Early Modern English (language notes) Page 5 of 9 The verbal area Auxiliary verbs In present-day English the only auxiliary is have. 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. We will now return to the topic by surveying the external factors that characterised the language community during this period of 200 years. Their original spelling has been retained but modern punctuation has been added.Early Modern English provides the modern student with much ampler textual and metalinguistic materials than any earlier period. 0000051709 00000 n 0000071620 00000 n 0000041722 00000 n The most recent stage in the evolution of the language is commonly called Present-Day English (PDE). In the late Middle Ages this was not the case with England, as the country was not ruled in English but in French and Latin. Old English, Middle English, and Modern English are the classification of English language, and they exhibit some differences between them. 0000085362 00000 n (For EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, Zotero, Mendeley...)Appendix 1 Mini-corpus of Early Modern English textsAppendix 1 Mini-corpus of Early Modern English texts

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