02654cam a2200349 i 4500 20865976 20190808194122.0 190225s2019 ne a b 001 0 eng 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 1 shelf copy policy default xk13 2019-02-25 xk13 2019-02-25 (telework) to DEWEY xm07 2019-03-12 xn11 2019-07-31 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. xk25 2019-08-08 to CALM 2019004258 9789027203243 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 9789027262462 (e-book) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc PE1074.7 .N67 2019 427 23 Norms and conventions in the history of English / edited by Birte Bös, University of Duisburg-Essen ; Claudia Claridge, University of Augsburg. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019] 215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; volume 347 Includes bibliographical references and index. Linguistic norms and conventions: past and present / Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge -- Usage guides and the age of prescriptivism / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- "Splendidly prejudiced": words for disapproval in English usage books / Don Chapman -- Paradigm shifts in 19th-century British grammar writing: a network of texts and authors / Beatrix Busse, Kirsten Gather and Ingo Kleiber -- Promotional conventions on English title-pages up to 1550: modifiers of time, scope, and quality / Mari-liisa Varila and Matti Peikola -- What can we learn from constructed speech errors? Mrs Malaprop revisited / Lucia Kornexl -- The proverbial discourse tradition in the history of English: a usage-based view / Claudia lkert -- Testing a stylometric tool in the study of Middle English documentary texts / Martti Mäkinen -- Pragmatic and formulaic uses of shall and will in older Scots and early modern English official letter writing / Christine Elsweiler -- Studying dialect spelling in its own right: suggestions from a case study / Gan Wolf. English language Standardization. English language Grammar, Historical. Bös, Birte, 1974- editor. Claridge, Claudia, editor. Online version: Norms and conventions in the history of English Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019 9789027262462 (DLC) 2019012134