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The fifth in the new Naxos Audiobooks series In a Nutshell, The Renaissance is a short and accessible introduction to the era that gave us Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Palestrina. The Renaissance swept across Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries, heralding intellectual revolutions in science, art, philosophy and politics, and marking a decisive shift towards modern thinking. The authoritative Peter Whitfield brings together all the different threads of this transformative period in a lucid and fascinating introduction.
Table of contents : Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English / Merja Kyto -- On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English / Matti Kilpio -- Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710 / Paivi Pahta and Saara Nevanlinna -- Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English / Irma Taavitsainen -- Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English / Anneli Meurman-Solin.
The book deals with the development of descriptive models of English grammar writing during the Early Modern English period. For the first time, morphology and syntax as presented in Early Modern English grammars are systematically investigated as a whole. The statements of the contemporary grammarians are compared to hypotheses made in modern descriptions of Early Modern English and, where necessary, checked against the Early Modern English part of the Helsinki Corpus. Thus, a comprehensive overview of the characteristic features of Early Modern English is complemented by conclusions about the descriptive adequacy of Early Modern English grammars.
