Syntactic surprises in some English letters: the underlying progress of the language

Chapters in this book

1. I-X I
2. Introduction
3. A twofold view ‘from below’: New perspectives on language histories and language historiographies 3
4. I. Language variation in letters, diaries and other text sources from below
5. "As this leaves me at present" - Formulaic usage, politeness, and social proximity in nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants' letters 13
6. 'Lower-order' letters, schooling and the English language, 1795 to 1834 31
7. "Doch mein Mann möchte doch mal wissen ..." A discourse analysis of 19th-century emigrant men and women's private correspondence 45
8. Remnants of Western Yiddish in East Frisia 69
9. Eighteenth-century linguistic variation from the perspective of a Dutch diary and a collection of private letters 83
10. II. From past to present: Change from above - change from below
11. 'Time and Tyne': a corpus-based study of variation and change in relativization strategies in Tyneside English 99
12. Syntactic surprises in some English letters: the underlying progress of the language 115
13. YOU and THOU in Early Modern English: cross-linguistic perspectives 129
14. On the history of verbal present participle converbs in English and Norwegian and the concept of 'change from below' 149
15. The grammaticalization of geben 'to give' in German and Luxembourgish 163
16. A corpus-based study of modern colloquial 'Flemish' 179
17. 'Tussentaal' as a source of change from below in Belgian Dutch. A case study of substandardization processes in the chat language of Flemish teenagers 189
18. III. Language norms and standardization in a view form below
19. Surinamese Dutch: The development of a unique Germanic Language variety 207
20. "Zoo schrijve ek lievers my sort Afrikaans" - Speaker agency, identity, and resistance in the history of Afrikaans 221
21. "Deutsch ist eine würde-lose Sprache". On the history of a failed prescription 243
22. To boldly split the infinitive - or not? Prescriptive traditions and current English usage 259
23. Norm consciousness and corpus constitution in the study of Earlier Modern Germanic Languages 275
24. Variability and professionalism as prerequisites of standardization 295
25. Putting standard German to the test: some notes on the linguistic competence of grammarschool students and teachers in the nineteenth century 309
26. IV. Language choice and language planning
27. The choice between German and French for the German nobility of the late 18th century 333
28. Flirting at the fringe - The status of the German varieties as perceived by language activists in Belgium's Areler Land 343
29. Language and Luxembourgish national identity: ideologies of hybridity and purity in the past and present 363
30. The planning of modern Norwegian as a sociolinguistic experiment - 'from below' 379
31. The death of Standard German in 19th-century Budapest. A case study on the role of linguistic ideologies in language shift 405
32. 1750-1850: The disappearance of German from Bergen, Norway 423
33. Societal multilingualism and language conflicts in Galicia in the 19th century 437
34. New data on language policy and language choice in 19th-century Flemish city administrations 449
35. V. Reflections on alternative language histories
36. Communicative genres as categories in a socio-cultural history of communication 473
37. Deconstructing episodes in the 'history of English' 495
38. Index 514