On the importance of foreign language grammars for a history of standard German

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. I. DIFFUSING AND SHAPING THE STANDARD
5. Standardization and social networks 1
6. Dutch orthography in lower, middle and upper class documents in 19th-century Flanders 27
7. Standard German in the 19th century? 43
8. On the importance of foreign language grammars for a history of standard German 67
9. Norms and standards in 16th-century Swedish orthography 83
10. II. STANDARD AND IDENTITY
11. Emerging mother-tongue awareness 99
12. Two hundred years of language planning in Belgium 117
13. Political inflections 135
14. Standardization, language change, resistance and the question of linguistic threat 153
15. III. NON-STANDARDIZATION, DE-STANDARDIZATION AND RE-STANDARDIZATION
16. The standardization of Luxembourgish 179
17. Language planning in Norway 191
18. ‘Democratic’ and ‘elitist’ trends and a Frisian standard 205
19. Yiddish 219
20. Standardization processes and the mid-Atlantic English paradigm 229
21. Index 253