Publications

Publication details [#42744]

Auer, Anita and Victorina González-Díaz. 2005. Eighteenth-century prescriptivism in English: A re-evaluation of its effects on actual language usage. Multilingua 24 (4) : 317–341.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | historical linguistics | language change | language use

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This study re-evaluates the real impact of 18th century English prescriptive forces on contemporary English language use.