Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- To readers -- 1 The Early Modern English period -- 2 Sources for the study of Early Modern English -- 3 Towards a standard language -- 4 Old words and loan words -- 5 Word-formation and semantic change -- 6 Nouns and pronouns -- 7 Verbs, adjectives and adverbs -- 8 Syntactic structures -- 9 Changing pronunciation -- 10 Language in the community -- Appendices 1-2: Early Modern English texts -- References -- Index