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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. v–viii

Table of contents

Preface and acknowledgments
Contributors
Part I.Introduction and background
Chapter 1.Approaching change in 18th-century English
Chapter 2.Society and culture in the long 18th century
[Infobox]Range of writers in the CEECE
[Infobox]Polite society and rhetoric
Chapter 3.Grammar writing in the eighteenth century
Chapter 4.The corpus of early English correspondence extension (CEECE)
[Infobox]Data retrieval
Chapter 5.Research methods
5.1Quantifying change
5.2Basic methods for estimating frequencies
5.3Methods for studying changes lacking a variable
Part II.Studies
Chapter 6.“Ungenteel” and “rude”? On the use of thou in the eighteenth century
Chapter 7.Going to completion: The diffusion of verbal ‑s
Chapter 8.Periphrastic do in eighteenth-century correspondence: Emphasis on no social variation
Chapter 9.Indefinite pronouns with singular human reference: Recessive and ongoing
Chapter 10.Ongoing change: The diffusion of the third-person neuter possessive its
Chapter 11.Incipient and intimate: The progressive aspect
Chapter 12.Change or variation? Productivity of the suffixes ‑ness and ‑ity
Part III.Studies
Chapter 13.Zooming out: Overall frequencies and Google books
13.1Normalised frequencies of the phenomena studied
13.2Google Books: A shortcut to studying language variability?
Chapter 14.Conservative and progressive individuals
Chapter 15.Changes in different stages
15.1Introduction
15.2From incipient to mid-range and beyond
15.3From nearing completion to completed
Chapter 16.A wider sociolinguistic perspective
References
Appendix: Editions in the Corpora of early English correspondence
Index
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