Patterns of Change in 18th-Century English : A Sociolinguistic Approach.
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? Basing their work on a variationist sociolinguistic approach, the authors introduce models and methods used to trace the progress of linguistic...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series
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