The interplay of language norms and usage patterns. Comparing the history of Dutch, English, French and German

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. The interplay of language norms and usage patterns. Comparing the history of Dutch, English, French and German 1
5. Dutch
6. Language norms and language use in seventeenth-century Dutch 21
7. Language norms and language use in eighteenth-century Dutch 49
8. Norms and usage in nineteenth-century Southern Dutch 73
9. English
10. Norms and usage in seventeenth-century English 103
11. Eighteenth-century English normative grammars and their readers 129
12. Nineteenth-century English 151
13. French
14. From l’usage to le bon usage and back 173
15. Jacques-Louis Ménétra and his experience of the langue d’oc 201
16. From local to supra-local 223
17. German
18. Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German 251
19. Standard German in the eighteenth century 277
20. Prescriptive norms and norms of usage in nineteenth-century German 303
21. Index 321