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
• Année de publication: 2018
• Langue: English
• Collection: Advances in historical sociolinguistics (AHS)
• Description matérielle: 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...