The Early Modern English Period

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: Aspects of the History of English, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This work should give a short overview of the Early Modern English Period. It should give an idea how and when this period developed and which were the certain aspects of development. This will be followed by some examples of changes and developments in linguistics. These examples will be from the areas of phonology, morphology and vocabulary. During this period there were several groups of authors which should be regarded. Which famous and still-known authors were parts of which group? What was characteristic or special for each group or the period of time when it occurred? This will be followed by a short chapter about William Shakespeare who was an important person at that time and in his works one can also see linguistic changes.