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Acknowledgements
The interplay of language norms and usage patterns. Comparing the history of Dutch, English, French and German
Dutch
Language norms and language use in seventeenth-century Dutch: Negation and the genitive
Language norms and language use in eighteenth-century Dutch: Final n and the genitive
Norms and usage in nineteenth-century Southern Dutch
English
Norms and usage in seventeenth-century English
Eighteenth-century English normative grammars and their readers
Nineteenth-century English: Norms and usage
French
From l’usage to le bon usage and back: Norms and usage in seventeenth-century France
Jacques-Louis Ménétra and his experience of the langue d’oc
From local to supra-local: Hybridity in French written documents from the nineteenth century
German
Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German
Standard German in the eighteenth century: Norms and use
Prescriptive norms and norms of usage in nineteenth-century German
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