Matthew Gordon (Univ. of Missouri) discusses some aspects of Early Modern English Grammar with an emphasis on how the morphology and syntax of that period differ from today's.
Exactly what I´ve been searching for! I am absolutely fascinated with Early Modern English, I find it to greatly improve poetry. As a german I have trouble learning Early Modern English, so is there any source of aid you could give?
I´m glad I founded your video cause i´ve been scrolling for hours on yotube waiting to find a good EME explanation. It does really look like its the only good guide (in video format) to EME in the entire website. Loved the calm voice and the clear explanations. Have a good day.
The sound on your video is too low, or maybe you speak too softly. It's almost impossible for me to hear what you're saying even with my volume turned to 100. With subtitles turned on I can understand more, but please fix your sound (BTW I'm a native English speaker). When I go to other videos with my volume turned all the way up, they are super loud, so it's not just my imagination or some technical issue on my end.
The wonders of Creole English. Old English has more life in the tones and pronunciation of words. Creole English just killed the tones and it's more boring.
Houses are way better examples for explaining "within" and "without". Within your house do you dwell--or-- I will go without thine house and suckle my pipe. If you think about it, we modern speakers would seem more ignorant for using those words aside their ritual meaning...not to mention how many people dont realize the original usage of those words. I've literally told people that I would meet them within the house or without the house and gotten blank stares for it. Didnt even know that people didnt use those words that way anymore. (save for within; that one is more commonlly used for "inside" where as without is only ever understood as "to have something go away or have to get by with something being absent) This is the one grammer/vocab thing that I will be mean about though...I will turn to someone who is confused and bluntlly tell them to figure it the hell out from context. There is no excuse for this one; the word literally does what it says on the tin but apparentlly a lot of people have as hard a time understanding this as they do the diference between "to" and "too".
