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Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approachEdited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 8] 2018
► pp. 97–116
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 8] 2018
► pp. 97–116
Chapter 7Going to completion
The diffusion of verbal ‑s
Article outline
- 7.1Introduction
- 7.2Verbal ‑s before the long 18th century
- 7.2.1Interconnected processes
- 7.2.2Past corpus evidence
- 7.3New results
- 7.3.1Time course of change
- 7.3.2Gender variation
- 7.3.3Social status variation
- 7.4Polarization of individuals
- 7.4.1Conservative minority
- 7.4.2Two case studies: Thomas Browne and John Clift
- 7.5Normative grammar
- 7.6Conclusions
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Notes
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