Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Abbreviations VII
4. Chapter 1: Introduction 1
5. Chapter 2: Early Modern English: Overview 8
6. Chapter 3: Phonology 27
7. Chapter 4: Morphology 47
8. Chapter 5: Syntax 68
9. Chapter 6: Lexicon and semantics 89
10. Chapter 7: Pragmatics and discourse 108
11. Chapter 8: Dialects 128
12. Chapter 9: Language contact 150
13. Chapter 10: Standardization 167
14. Chapter 11: Sociolinguistics 188
15. Chapter 12: Pronouns 209
16. Chapter 13: Periphrastic DO 224
17. Chapter 14: The Great Vowel Shift 241
18. Chapter 15: Relativization 267
19. Chapter 16: Literary language 287
20. Chapter 17: The language of Shakespeare 309
21. Index 333