Early Modern London business English

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Initial adverbials and word order in English with special reference to the Early Modern English period 11
5. Are Shakespeare’s agent nouns different from Chaucer’s? – On the dynamics of a derivational sub-system 45
6. The construction be going to + infinitive in Early Modern English 59
7. “Sumer is icumen in”: the seasons of the year in Middle English and Early Modern English 79
8. The place-name evidence for the distribution of Early Modern English dialect features: the voicing of initial /f-/ 97
9. Text deixis in Early Modern English 111
10. On phrasal verbs in Early Modern English: notes on lexis and style 129
11. The use of thou and you in Early Modern spoken English: evidence from depositions in the Durham ecclesiastical court records 141
12. Orthoepists and reformers 153
13. Vocalisation of “post-vocalic r” — an Early Modern English sound change? 167
14. From stress-timing to syllable-timing: changes in the prosodic system of Late Middle English and Early Modern English 187
15. Lexical semantics and the Early Modern English lexicon: the case of antonymy 205
16. Early Modern English passive constructions 217
17. Infl in Early Modern English and the Status of to 233
18. Aspects of adverbial change in Early Modern English 243
19. Periodization in language history: Early Modern English and the other periods 261
20. Degree adverbs in Early Modern English 269
21. The ugly sister – Scots words in Early Modern English dictionaries 289
22. The development of the compound pronouns in -body and -one in Early Modern English 301
23. Social conditioning and diachronic language change 325
24. The position of not in Early Modern English questions 339
25. William Turner and the English plant names 349
26. The history of the English language and future English teachers 371
27. You that be not able to consyder thys order of thinges: Variability and change in the semantics and syntax of a mental verb in Early Modern English 379
28. The expression of deontic and epistemic modality and the subjunctive 403
29. Any as an indefinite determiner in non-assertive clauses: evidence from Present-day and Early Modern English 413
30. Loss of postvocalic r: Were the orthoepists really tone-deaf? 429
31. Early Modern London business English 449
32. The mystery of the modal progressive 467
33. Index of subjects and languages 487
34. Index of names 499