Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Early Modern English: Overview -- Chapter 3: Phonology -- Chapter 4: Morphology -- Chapter 5: Syntax -- Chapter 6: Lexicon and semantics -- Chapter 7: Pragmatics and discourse -- Chapter 8: Dialects -- Chapter 9: Language contact -- Chapter 10: Standardization -- Chapter 11: Sociolinguistics -- Chapter 12: Pronouns -- Chapter 13: Periphrastic DO -- Chapter 14: The Great Vowel Shift -- Chapter 15: Relativization -- Chapter 16: Literary language -- Chapter 17: The language of Shakespeare -- Index