This book is a corpus-based study examining thou and you in three speech-related genres from 1560–1760, a crucial period in the history of second person singul

This book analyses speech-related genres in Early Modern English, providing ideas of what spoken interaction in earlier times might have been like.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of Early Modern English, organized by linguistic level. The volume not only presents detailed outlines of the tradi

The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studi