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? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus of personal correspondence, including the auxiliary do, ver...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2018]
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| Series: | Advances in historical sociolinguistics (AHS),
volume 8 |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
