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. 197–218

Chapter 12
Change or variation? Productivity of the suffixes ‑ness and ‑ity

Article outline
  • 12.1Introduction
  • 12.2Theoretical background
  • 12.3Previous research
  • 12.4Research questions
  • 12.5Results
    • 12.5.1Overall trends
    • 12.5.2Social categories
    • 12.5.3Case studies
      • 12.5.3.1Individual outliers
      • 12.5.3.2Royalty vs. the Clifts
      • 12.5.3.3Semantics
    • 12.5.4Normative grammar
  • 12.6Conclusion
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Published online: 06 September 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.8.12sai
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