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

"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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Superior document:Advances in historical sociolinguistics (AHS)
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2018.
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Advances in historical sociolinguistics (AHS)
Physical Description:1 online resource (325 pages).
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