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3 giorni fa · The early modern period is a subdivision of the most recent of the three major periods of European history: antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern period. The term "early modern" was first proposed by medieval historian Lynn Thorndike in his 1926 work A Short History of Civilization as a broader alternative to the Renaissance .
24 apr 2024 · Great Vowel Shift, in historical linguistics, a series of significant and parallel changes in the articulation of English long vowels (i.e., vowels whose articulations are stressed and relatively longer than those of other vowels), extending from approximately the 15th to the 18th century and marking a major phonological distinction ...
19 apr 2024 · Modern English is analytic (i.e., relatively uninflected), whereas Proto-Indo-European, the ancestral tongue of most of the modern European languages (e.g., German, French, Russian, Greek), was synthetic, or inflected.
- The English language is an Indo-European language in the West Germanic language group. Modern English is widely considered to be the lingua franca...
- As of 2020 there are 1.27 billion English speakers around the world. This makes it the most spoken language, ahead of Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billio...
- There has been much public and academic debate on whether African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a dialect of English or its own separate la...
- Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English...
- English is not the official language of the United States of America. The country does not have an official language on the federal level. Many sta...
3 giorni fa · The next period in the history of English was Early Modern English (1500–1700). Early Modern English was characterised by the Great Vowel Shift (1350–1700), inflectional simplification, and linguistic standardisation. The Great Vowel Shift affected the stressed long vowels of Middle English.
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19 apr 2024 · English: Literature, Rhetoric, and Composition : Early Modern / Renaissance (late 15th and 16th c.) Provided by NU Libraries. Women Writers Online. Early modern women's writings from 1400 to 1850. Includes searchable full-text of books, poetry, and speeches as well as browse by date, author, and title. Early English Books Online.
23 apr 2024 · For most modern readers, Early Modern English poses enough semantic and syntactic difficulties to require editorial annotation—that swift glance to the bottom of the page that informs us that many familiar words, such as virtue and honesty and credit, had different meanings then.
4 giorni fa · Literatures in English: Early Modern Period (1485-1660) This page lists sources that cover multiple periods, genres, and/or nationalities. See additional resources in the "Historical Literary Period" and "Geographical Region" pages.
