Table of contents
Linguistic norms and conventions: Past and present
1
Usage guides and the Age of Prescriptivism
7
“Splendidly prejudiced”: Words for disapproval in English usage guides
29
Paradigm shifts in 19th-century British grammar writing – A network of texts and authors
49
Promotional conventions on English title-pages up to 1550: Modifiers of time, scope, and quality
73
What can we learn from constructed speech errors? Mrs Malaprop revisited
99
The proverbial discourse tradition in the history of English: A usage-based view
129
Testing a stylometric tool in the study of Middle English documentary texts
149
Pragmatic and formulaic uses of Shall and Will in Older Scots and Early Modern English official letter writing
167
Studying dialect spelling in its own right: Suggestions from a case study
191
Index
213
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