Patterns of Change in 18th-century English. A sociolinguistic approach
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...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
2018
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| Series: | Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |