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Patterns of change in 18th-century English : a sociolinguistic approach
Nevalainen, TerttuPalander-Collin, MinnaSäily, Tanja

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 -sand the progressive aspect, and they conclude that direct normative influence on them must have b…

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ISBN/ISSN
9789027263834
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xi. 311p. : ill.
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427.009033 PAT p