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Norms and Conventions in the History of English
Edited by Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 347] 2019
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Linguistic norms and conventions: Past and present1
Usage guides and the Age of Prescriptivism7
“Splendidly prejudiced”: Words for disapproval in English usage guides29
Paradigm shifts in 19th-century British grammar writing – A network of texts and authors49
Promotional conventions on English title-pages up to 1550: Modifiers of time, scope, and quality73
What can we learn from constructed speech errors? Mrs Malaprop revisited99
The proverbial discourse tradition in the history of English: A usage-based view129
Testing a stylometric tool in the study of Middle English documentary texts149
Pragmatic and formulaic uses of Shall and Will in Older Scots and Early Modern English official letter writing167
Studying dialect spelling in its own right: Suggestions from a case study191
Index213


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