Chapter published in:
Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 8] 2018
► pp. 97–116

Chapter 7
Going 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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Published online: 06 September 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.8.07nev