Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Studying real-time change in the adverbial subjunctive 13
6. Political perspectives on linguistic innovation in independent America 37
7. Five Hundred Mistakes Corrected 55
8. Transatlantic perspectives on late nineteenth-century English usage 73
9. “Provincial in England, but in common use with us” 99
10. “Across the ocean ferry” 117
11. Legitimising linguistic devices in A Cheering Voice from Upper Canada (1834) 135
12. Nineteenth-century institutional (im)politeness 153
13. ‘[B]ut sure its only a penny after all’ 179
14. Assigned gender in a corpus of nineteenth-century correspondence among settlers in the American Great Plains 199
15. Index 219