9783039116607 (alk. paper)

3039116606 (alk. paper)

Linguistic insights ; vol. 77

Prescriptive and normative concerns. Three hundred years of prescriptivism (and counting) / JOAN C. BEAL

Deontic and epistemic modals as indicators of prescriptive and descriptive language in the grammars by Joseph Priestley and Robert Lowth / ROBIN STRAAIJER

"Telling people how to speak" : rhetorical grammars and pronouncing dictionaries / RAYMOND HICKEY

Periodical reviews and the rise of prescriptivism: The monthly (1749-1844) and Critical Review (1756-1817) in the eighteenth century / CAROL PERCY

Late Modern work on the English language. The ECEG-database: a bio-bibliographical approach to the study of eighteenthcentury English grammars / MARA ESTHER RODRiGUEZGIL and NURIA YEZBOUZA

"With a concise historical account of the language": outlines of the history of English in eighteenth-century dictionaries / ALICIA RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

The Oxford English Dictionary's treatment of female-authored sources of the eighteenth century / CHARLOTTE BREWER

Living history: Andrew Clark, the OED and the language of the First World War / LYNDA MUGGLESTONE

Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and its sources / MANFRED MARKUS

Studies in grammar and lexis. The Irish contribution to the English language during the Late Modern period / DANIELA CESIRI

Grammatical divergence between British and American English in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / GUNTER ROHDENBURG

Interpretative progressives in Late Modern English / SVENJA KRANICH

Studies on letters. The problem of small numbers: methodological issues in social network analysis / FROUKJE HENSTRA

Plain speech in Lindley Murray's letters: peculiar or polite? / LYDA FENS-DE ZEEUW

She has four and big agane: ellipses and prostheses in mechanically-schooled writing in England, 1795-1834 / TONY FAIRMAN.

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