Patterns of Change in 18th-century English : a sociolinguistic approach

Patterns of Change in 18th-century English a sociolinguistic approach

"Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus of personal correspondence, including the auxiliary do, ver...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nevalainen, Terttu, editor (editor), Palander-Collin, Minna, 1967- editor, Säily, Tanja, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company [2018]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Advances in historical sociolinguistics ; Volume 8.
Subjects:
English language > Social aspects.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745080006719
Table of Contents:
  • Approaching change in 18th-century English / Terttu Nevalainen
  • Society and culture in the long 18th century / Terttu Nevalainen
  • Range of writers in the CEECE / Terttu Nevalainen
  • Polite society & rhetoric / Arja Nurmi and Minna Nevala
  • Grammar writing in the eighteenth century / Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
  • The Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension (CEECE) / Samuli Kaislaniemi
  • Data retrieval / Mikko Hakala
  • Quantifying change / Terttu Nevalainen
  • Basic methods for estimating frequencies / Terttu Nevalainen
  • Methods for studying changes lacking a variable / Tanja Säily, Arja Nurmi and Anni Sairio
  • "Ungenteel" and "rude": On the use of thou in the eighteenth century / Minna Nevala
  • Going to completion: The diffusion of verbal -s / Terttu Nevalainen
  • Periphrastic do in eighteenth-century correspondence: Emphasis on no social variation / Arja Nurmi
  • Indefinite pronouns with singular human reference: Recessive and ongoing / Mikko Laitinen
  • Ongoing change: The diffusion of the third-person neuter possessive its / Minna Palander-Collin
  • Incipient and intimate: The progressive aspect / Anni Sairio
  • Change or variation? Productivity of the suffixes -ness and -ity / Tanja Säily
  • Normalised frequencies of the phenomena studied / Tanja Säily
  • Google Books: A shortcut to studying language variability? / Mikko Laitinen and Tanja Säily
  • Conservative and progressive individuals / Tanja Säily
  • From incipient to mid-range and beyond / Minna Palander-Collin, Mikko Laitinen, Anni Sairio and Tanja Säily
  • From nearing completion to completed / Terttu Nevalainen, Mikko Laitinen, Minna Nevala and Arja Nurmi
  • A wider sociolinguistic perspective / Terttu Nevalainen.

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