Late Modern English is a fruitful period for linguistic research of all kinds. This became evident once again at the Third Late Modern English Conference, held at the University of Leiden in 2007, from which the papers presented in this volume derive. Themes dealt with include the nature, form and effects of prescription, an issue of increasing importance during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; grammars and dictionaries produced during the period; specific topics in Late Modern English grammar and lexis; the language of letters; and methodological issues in the study of Late Modern English as such.
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade |
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Prescriptive and normative concerns |
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Three hundred years of prescriptivism (and counting) |
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Deontic and epistemic modals as indicators of prescriptive and descriptive language in the grammars by Joseph Priestley and Robert Lowth |
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``Telling people how to speak'': rhetorical grammars and pronouncing dictionaries |
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Periodical reviews and the rise of prescriptivism: the Monthly (1749-1844) and Critical Review (1756-1817) in the eighteenth century |
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Late Modern work on the English language |
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The ECEG-database: a bio-bibliographical approach to the study of eighteenth-century English grammars |
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Maria Esther Rodriguez-Gil |
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``With a concise historical account of the language'': outlines of the history of English in eighteenth-century dictionaries |
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The Oxford English Dictionary's treatment of female-authored sources of the eighteenth century |
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Living history: Andrew Clark, the OED and the language of the First World War |
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Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and its sources |
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Studies in grammar and lexis |
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The Irish contribution to the English language during the Late Modern period |
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Grammatical divergence between British and American English in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
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Interpretative progressives in Late Modern English |
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The problem of small numbers: methodological issues in social network analysis |
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Plain speech in Lindley Murray's letters: peculiar or polite? |
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She has four and big agane: ellipses and prostheses in mechanically-schooled writing in England, 1795-1834 |
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The Editors: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade holds a Chair in English Sociohistorical Linguistics at the University of Leiden. Her research interests include historical social network analysis and the English standardisation process, in particular codification and prescription. She is editor of the internet journal Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics, and is the director of the VICI research project The Codifiers and the English Language. She is currently writing a book on Robert Lowth and the rise of prescriptivism that is expected to appear in 2010. Wim van der Wurff is senior lecturer in English language and linguistics at Newcastle University (UK). His research interests include English historical syntax, mechanisms of linguistic change, the syntax and semantics of imperative clauses, and Bengali linguistics.
