Early Modern English Flashcards
What is vernacular?
Spoken varieties of English
Who is a key example of EME?
Shakespeare
Around what time did EME emerge?
Around 1500
What invention to the emergence of EME from ME?
The printing press
What was the dialect that became SE?
East Midlands
Why did the EM dialect become SE?
Most printing was done in London.
What political thing led to an increasing in literacy?
Beginning of Tudor dynasty
Who introduced the printing press to England?
William Caxton
What process was English undergoing during the formation of EME?
Standardisation
What linguistic event caused variance in spelling from ME to EME?
The great vowel shift.
The first … was published in 1604
English dictionary (Cawdrey)
The first … was published in 1604
English dictionary (Cawdrey)
What was one of the most influential texts in the consolidation of EME?
King James Bible
What did the scientific renaissance cause?
Latin and Greek terms being imported to English.
There was high literacy in the EME period. The existence of … reflects this.
The daily Courant
Grammarians imposed rules similar to what prestigious language?
Latin.
What type of English emerges in 1800?
Modern English
What has happened by 1800 that allows a new era of English to rise?
Standardisation (largely) of spelling, grammar and vocabulary.
What were the EME pronouns?
Thou/ thee, You/ye.
Why did EME pronouns turn into one pronoun?
Less hierarchy
What did the EME verb endings ‘-est’ and ‘eth’ become in PDE?
‘-s’
What part of a PDE question is missing in the following: “Know you this man?”
Auxiliary verb ‘do’
Why does EME have double negatives but PDE doesn’t?
Standardisation in 18th century and imposed Latin rules.
What, at the start of a word, was the phoneme
‘/u/‘ denoted as in EME?
The grapheme <v></v>
