Focus and Content
- The Early Modern Period - Sociohistorical Context
- Identifying central problems
- Phonology
- Morphonology
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Pragmatics
- Deixis - An introduction
- The use of "thou" and "you"
- Insults
- Bibliography
- Lexicography
- Morphology in Early Modern English
- Phonology in Early Modern English
- The invention of new words by Shakespeare
- The English language at Shakespeare’s time
- Reactions on the introduction of new words in England
- eanings and Origins?
- How Shakespeare invented words
- Our Little Shakespeare Quiz
- Examples: Using old words to form a new one
- List of words coined by Shakespeare
- How many words did Shakespeare know?
- Suggested Reading and Bibliography