Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics.

Intro -- Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- The future of historical sociolinguistics? -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Purpose of the volume -- 1.2 Nevalainen's 2015 essay -- 2. New insights -- 2.1 Methodological innovations -- 2.2 New data for historical sociolinguistic research -- 2.3 Theory: Bridging gaps, new challenges -- 3. Conclusion: The future? -- References -- Exploring part-of-speech frequencies in a sociohistorical corpus of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 POS ratios in the study of (sociolinguistic) variation -- 2.2 Complexity in the genre of personal correspondence -- 3. Material and method -- 3.1 PCEEC and ReCEEC -- 3.2 Visualisation -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Complexity in the parsed corpus of early English correspondence -- 4.2 Colloquialisation and gendered styles -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Superordinate POS labels -- Ireland in British parliamentary debates 1803-2005 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical sociolinguistics, historical discourse analysis and the corpus approach to the study of history -- 3. The corpus -- 4. The challenge of identifying major shifts in discourse in a very large corpus -- 5. Trough one: The Great Famine, 1845-1848, historical background -- 6. Trough one: The Great Famine, 1845-1848, corpus analysis -- 7. Trough two: The establishment of the Irish Republic, historical background -- 8. Trough two: The establishment of the Irish Republic, corpus analysis -- 9. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Discord in eighteenth-century genteel correspondence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Polite society of eighteenth-century England -- 2.2 Discord in the eighteenth century: Linguistic and socio-cultural background.

3. Relationships between politeness and discord: Methods -- 3.1 Socio-cultural embedding of politeness terminology (Nevalainen &amp -- Tissari 2010) -- 3.2 Discord terminology in the current study -- 4. Case studies: Discord in eighteenth-century correspondence -- 4.1 Discord proper -- 4.2 Disgrace -- 4.3 Disorder -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Competing norms and standards -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rural letters, meta-level discussions and newspapers -- 3. Morphology and language planning -- 3.1 Nominal morphology in Finnish -- 3.2 The essive case: Change from below -- 3.3 The illative case and visible language planning -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Data sources -- Printed sources -- Relativisation in Dutch diaries, private letters and newspapers (1770-1840) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical-sociolinguistic background -- 3. The variable -- 3.1 Changes in relativisation -- 3.2 Focusing on Dutch relative pronouns -- 3.3 The neuter relative pronoun in Late Modern Dutch -- 3.4 Norms for relativisation in Late Modern Dutch -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Diachronic overview -- 5.2 Definiteness of the antecedent -- 5.3 Geographical variation -- 5.4 Gender variation -- 5.5 Zooming in on genre -- 6. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- "A graphic system which leads its own linguistic life"? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and methods -- 3. Consonant variation: &lt -- l&gt -- vs. &lt -- ll&gt -- -- 3.1 always -- 3.2 -ful -- 4. Vowel variation: &lt -- ei&gt -- vs. &lt -- ie&gt -- -- 4.1 friend -- 4.2 believe -- 4.3 receive -- 5. The standardisation of epistolary spelling -- 5.1 Idiolectal variation dominates in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- 5.2 Generational change in the seventeenth century -- 5.3 Emerging standards in the eighteenth century.

6. Conclusions -- 6.1 On the reliability of CEEC for research on spelling -- 6.2 Overlapping waves of change -- References -- Historical sociolinguistics and construction grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mutual challenges -- 3. Mutual benefits -- 4. An example analysis: sarcastic much? -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- "Vernacular universals" in nineteenth-century grammar writing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Collection of Nineteenth-Century Grammars (CNG) -- 3. Case studies -- 3.1 Multiple negation -- 3.2 Adverbs without -ly -- 3.3 You was vs. you were -- 3.4 There is/there was with plural subjects -- 3.5 Epithets -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Revisiting weak ties -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Material and methods -- 4. Results and observations -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.

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