Patterns of Change in 18th-century English. A sociolinguistic approach

• Main Author: Minna Palander-Collin (auth)
• Other Authors: Tanja Säily (auth), Terttu Nevalainen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2018
• Series: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Sociolinguistics; English linguistics; Historical linguistics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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, verbal -s...