Early Modern English

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf historical language period
gptkbp:endDate mid-to-late 17th century
gptkbp:feature gptkb:Great_Vowel_Shift
development of fixed word order
emergence of printing press
increased borrowing from Latin and Greek
loss of some inflectional endings
standardization of spelling
use of thou/thee/ye/you distinctions
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Modern_English
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Early Modern English
gptkbp:ISO639-3 enm
gptkbp:languageFamily gptkb:Anglic
gptkb:Germanic
gptkb:Indo-European
gptkb:West_Germanic
gptkb:Anglo-Frisian
gptkbp:notableContributor gptkb:John_Milton
gptkb:William_Shakespeare
gptkb:Christopher_Marlowe
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:First_Folio
gptkb:King_James_Bible
Book of Common Prayer
works of John Donne
works of William Blake
works of Ben Jonson
works of Samuel Pepys
works of Alexander Pope
works of Andrew Marvell
works of Ann Radcliffe
works of Aphra Behn
works of Daniel Defoe
works of Edmund Burke
works of Edmund Spenser
works of Fanny Burney
works of Francis Bacon
works of George Chapman
works of George Herbert
works of Henry Fielding
works of Henry Vaughan
works of Horace Walpole
works of Isaac Newton
works of James Boswell
works of John Bunyan
works of John Dryden
works of John Fletcher
works of John Ford
works of John Locke
works of John Lyly
works of John Milton
works of John Webster
works of Jonathan Swift
works of Laurence Sterne
works of Margaret Cavendish
works of Mary Wollstonecraft
works of Oliver Goldsmith
works of Philip Sidney
works of Richard Burbage
works of Richard Lovelace
works of Robert Burns
works of Robert Greene
works of Robert Herrick
works of Samuel Johnson
works of Samuel Richardson
works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
works of Thomas Dekker
works of Thomas Gray
works of Thomas Hobbes
works of Thomas Kyd
works of Thomas Middleton
works of Thomas More
works of Thomas Nashe
works of Tobias Smollett
works of William Cowper
works of William Wordsworth
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:King_James_Bible
works of William Shakespeare
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:English_language
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Middle_English
gptkbp:region gptkb:England
gptkb:Ireland
gptkb:Scotland
gptkb:Wales
gptkb:British_North_America
gptkbp:spokenIn gptkb:British_Isles
gptkb:England
gptkb:Ireland
gptkb:British_colonies
gptkbp:startDate late 15th century
gptkbp:writingSystem gptkb:Latin_alphabet
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Tudor_period
gptkb:Middle_English
gptkb:North_American_English
gptkb:English_language
gptkb:The_Elizabethans
gptkb:Elizabethan_England
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5