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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. 117–135

Chapter 8
Periphrastic do in eighteenth-century correspondence

Emphasis on no social variation

Article outline
  • 8.1Introduction
  • 8.2From periphrastic do to do-support
    • 8.2.1Periphrastic do before the eighteenth century
    • 8.2.2 do in the eighteenth century
    • 8.2.3Present-day English do-support
    • 8.2.4The construction studied
  • 8.3General development of do in CEECE
    • 8.3.1 do and social variation
  • 8.4Frequent linguistic contexts
    • 8.4.1Subject type
    • 8.4.2Type of main verb
    • 8.4.3Adverbials with do
    • 8.4.4Cross-tabulating subject type and main verb
  • 8.5Towards do-support
  • 8.6Conclusion
  • Notes
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Published online: 6 September 2018
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