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Towards a Standard English : 1600 - 1800 / ed. by Dieter Stein, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 12Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (325 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110136975
  • 9783110864281
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420/.9/09032 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1083 .T69 1994eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Sorting out the variants: Standardization and social factors in the English language 1600–1800 -- The notion of “standard language” and its applicability to the study of Early Modern English pronunciation -- “Politeness” as linguistic ideology in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England -- Language standardization in eighteenth-century Scotland -- Prestige norms in stage plays, 1600–1800 -- Proliferation and option-cutting: The strong verb in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Standardization and the English irregular verbs -- The differentiation of statives and perfects in early modern English: The development of the conclusive perfect -- Its strength and the beauty of it: The standardization of the third person neuter possessive in Early Modern English -- Standard and non-standard pronominal usage in English, with special reference to the eighteenth century -- The critic and the grammarians: Joseph Addison and the prescriptivists -- The effect of exposure to standard English: The language of William Clift -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Sorting out the variants: Standardization and social factors in the English language 1600–1800 -- The notion of “standard language” and its applicability to the study of Early Modern English pronunciation -- “Politeness” as linguistic ideology in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England -- Language standardization in eighteenth-century Scotland -- Prestige norms in stage plays, 1600–1800 -- Proliferation and option-cutting: The strong verb in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Standardization and the English irregular verbs -- The differentiation of statives and perfects in early modern English: The development of the conclusive perfect -- Its strength and the beauty of it: The standardization of the third person neuter possessive in Early Modern English -- Standard and non-standard pronominal usage in English, with special reference to the eighteenth century -- The critic and the grammarians: Joseph Addison and the prescriptivists -- The effect of exposure to standard English: The language of William Clift -- Index

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