Towards a Standard English : : 1600 - 1800 / / ed. by Dieter Stein, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Austin, Frances,; Brinton, Laurel J.,; Cheshire, Jenny,; Frank, Thomas,; Klein, Lawrence,; Lass, Roger,; McIntosh, Carey,; Milroy, James,; Nevalainen, Terttu,; Ostade, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van,; Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena,; Stein, Dieter,; Wright, Susan,
• HerausgeberIn: Stein, Dieter,; Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Sorting out the variants: Standardization and social factors in the English language 1600–1800 --; The notion of “standard language” and its applicability to the study of Early Modern English pronunciation --; “Politeness” as linguistic ideology in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England --; Language standardization in eighteenth-century Scotland --; Prestige norms in stage plays, 1600–1800 --; Proliferation and option-cutting: The strong verb in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries --; Standardization and the English irregular verbs --; The differentiation of statives and perfects in early modern English: The development of the conclusive perfect --; Its strength and the beauty of it: The standardization of the third person neuter possessive in Early Modern English --; Standard and non-standard pronominal usage in English, with special reference to the eighteenth century --; The critic and the grammarians: Joseph Addison and the prescriptivists --; The effect of exposure to standard English: The language of William Clift --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110864281; 9783110636895; 9783110305616
• ISSN: 1434-3452
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110864281
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Dieter Stein, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.