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_aProcesses of Change : _bStudies in Late Modern and Present-Day English. |
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_aAmsterdam/Philadelphia : _bJohn Benjamins Publishing Company, _c2019. |
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| 505 | 0 | _aIntro -- Processes of Change -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- References -- Part I. Processes of change in Late Modern English -- Chapter 2. Enregisterment and historical sociolinguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Indexicality and enregisterment -- 3. Historical discourse about language -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3. The obelisk and the asterisk: Early to Late Modern views on language and change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A brief introduction to the dictionaries -- 2.1 The flourishing of "hard words" -- 3. The dictionary makers and their linguistic outlook -- 3.1 Notations of correctness or something else -- 3.2 The real linguistic bêtes noires of these dictionary makers -- 4. The murky ground between prescription and description -- 5. Concluding remarks - "a marriage of contraries" -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4. A (great) deal of: Developments in 19th-century British and Australian English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A deal (of): Forms and functions -- 3. Variation across time, space, and contexts -- 4. Data and methodology -- 5. Deal in OBC and COOEE -- 5.1 Regional and diachronic variation -- 5.2 Forms, variants and frequencies -- 5.3 Functions: Quantification vs degree -- 5.4 Register variation -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Electronic resources -- Primary data sources -- Other -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 5. 'but a[h] Hellen d[ea]r sure you have it more in your power in every respect than I have' - Discourse marker sure in Irish English -- 1. Not just an emphatic opener: sure in Irish English -- 2. A peculiarly Irish English phenomenon? -- 3. Previous accounts of IrE sure -- 4. sure in the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence -- 5. sure in CORIECOR -- 6. Conclusions and further directions -- References. | |
| 505 | 8 | _aChapter 6. Scotland's contribution to English vocabulary in Late Modern times -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Late modern Scotland between antiquity and innovation -- 2. The Scottish roots of the OED -- 3. Scottish sources in the OED -- 3.1 Literary voices -- 3.2 Scottish lexicographers in the OED -- 3.3 Scottish periodicals in the OED -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 7. Early immigrant English: Midwestern English before the dust settled -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Context -- 2. The twisted path of one innovation and the possible role of education -- 3. The broader picture: English dialect features in immigrant letters -- 3.1 The Asbach letters -- 3.2 Sophia Goth's English letter: Excerpts -- 3.3 Fred Volkmann English letter: Excerpts -- 4. Feature analysis -- 4.1 Transitional nonnative features -- 4.2 Enduring but less directly structural features -- 4.3 Ambiguous features -- 4.4 Possible dialectal American English-origin patterns -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8. African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia: Processes of change in a transported dialect -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies on African American English in Liberia -- 3. Data: The Corpus of Older African American English -- 3.1 The Skipwith letters -- 4. The sociohistorical context: Emigration to Liberia -- 4.1 The American Colonization Society -- 4.2 The first settlements in Liberia -- 5. Methodology and data analysis -- 5.1 Past be -- 5.2 Present be -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Processes of change in Present Day English -- Chapter 9. Attitudes to flat adverbs and English usage advice -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The survey -- 3. Usage of slow/slowly and quicker/more quickly, and of thusly -- 3.1 Slow/slowly and quicker/more quickly -- 3.2 Thusly. | |
| 505 | 8 | _a4. Survey results -- 4.1 The respondents -- 4.2 Acceptability ratings for quicker, go slow and thusly -- 4.3 Acceptability ranking for go slow, quicker and thusly across sociolinguistic groups -- 5. Go slow/slowly, quicker/more quickly and thusly in the usage guides -- 6. The usage guides and the informants -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 10. The modal auxiliary verb may and change in Irish English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research questions -- 2.1 Corpus data -- 2.2 ICE-Ireland -- 2.3 ICE-GB -- 2.4 London-Lund Corpus of Spoken British English (LLC) -- 2.5 Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR) -- 2.6 Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (LOB) -- 2.7 Freiburg Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (FLOB) -- 2.8 The British National Corpus (BNC) -- 3. Background -- 3.1 Modal verb system of Irish -- 3.2 Development of may in the History of English -- 3.3 Descriptive model of may -- 4. May in nineteenth-century Ireland -- 4.1 May in late twentieth-century Irish and British English -- 4.2 Irish uses of may -- 4.3 Merger/blend/borderline cases -- 4.4 May and prosody -- 5. Discussion -- References -- Chapter 11. Levelling processes and social changes in a peripheral community: Prevocalic /r/ in West Cumbria -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sociolinguistic background of Maryport -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Statistical analysis -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12. The goose vowel in South African English with special reference to Coloured communities in 5 cities -- 1. Introduction -- 2. goose-fronting in post 1994 sociolinguistics -- 3. Coloured identities -- 4. Sample and methodology -- 5. Findings -- 5.1 goose means in relation to other monophthongs -- 5.2 goose distribution by environment -- 5.3 Overall differences by city and sub-factors. | |
| 505 | 8 | _a6. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 13. Borders and language -- 1. Continua and dis-continua -- 2. Borders interrupted and continuous -- 3. Borders as bastions -- 4. When is the border permeable? -- 5. Fences and neighbors -- References -- Index. | |
| 520 | _aThe present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature on language change by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of language change in English from around 1700 until the present day. | ||
| 588 | _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. | ||
| 590 | _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aEnglish language-Variation-History. | |
| 655 | 4 | _aElectronic books. | |
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