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Publication details [#61393]

Anderwald, Lieselotte. 2016. The progressive as a symbol of national superiority in nineteenth-century British grammars. Language & Communication 48 : 66–78.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammar1 | historical linguistics | language and society | language change | progressive

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Though facing notable language change, the Progressive Active was never criticized in prescriptive 19th century English grammars, buy even became a symbol of national linguistic primacy, and metonymically embodied economic superiority and pride.