The notion of “standard language” and its applicability to the study of Early Modern English pronunciation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Sorting out the variants: Standardization and social factors in the English language 1600–1800 1
4. The notion of “standard language” and its applicability to the study of Early Modern English pronunciation 19
5. “Politeness” as linguistic ideology in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England 31
6. Language standardization in eighteenth-century Scotland 51
7. Prestige norms in stage plays, 1600–1800 63
8. Proliferation and option-cutting: The strong verb in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries 81
9. Standardization and the English irregular verbs 115
10. The differentiation of statives and perfects in early modern English: The development of the conclusive perfect 135
11. Its strength and the beauty of it: The standardization of the third person neuter possessive in Early Modern English 171
12. Standard and non-standard pronominal usage in English, with special reference to the eighteenth century 217
13. The critic and the grammarians: Joseph Addison and the prescriptivists 243
14. The effect of exposure to standard English: The language of William Clift 285
15. Index 315