Patterns of Change in 18th-century English : : A sociolinguistic approach / / edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin, Tanja Säily.

• Superior document: Advances in historical sociolinguistics (AHS)
• TeilnehmendeR: Säily, Tanja,; Palander-Collin, Minna,; Nevalainen, Terttu,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Advances in historical sociolinguistics (AHS)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (325 pages).

"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...

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.