TY - BOOK AU - Austin,Frances AU - Brinton,Laurel J. AU - Cheshire,Jenny AU - Frank,Thomas AU - Klein,Lawrence AU - Lass,Roger AU - McIntosh,Carey AU - Milroy,James AU - Nevalainen,Terttu AU - Ostade,Ingrid Tieken-Boon van AU - Raumolin-Brunberg,Helena AU - Stein,Dieter AU - Tieken-Boon van Ostade,Ingrid AU - Wright,Susan TI - Towards a Standard English: 1600 - 1800 T2 - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , SN - 9783110136975 AV - PE1083 .T69 1994eb U1 - 420/.9/09032 22 PY - 2012///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - English language KW - Standardization KW - 18th century KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - Englisch KW - Geschichte 1600-1800 KW - Standardsprache KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110864281 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110864281 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110864281/original ER -