Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade plays a role.

Book series

Title

Robert Lowth (1710-1787): The making of his grammar and its influence

Guest-edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 39:1 (2012) vi, 183 pp.
Subjects History of linguistics

Articles

This paper presents two remarkably similar characterological figures who are stereotyped embodiments of working-class personas: Haagse Harry in The Hague and chavs in England. The two figures have similar attires, class positions, attitudes, and associated attributes. We compare and… read more
Lukač, Morana and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade 2019 Chapter 9. Attitudes to flat adverbs and English usage adviceProcesses of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 159–182 | Chapter
Widespread as they are in non-standard and informal varieties of English, flat or suffixless adverbs are subject to prescriptive criticism when appearing in standard English. In the present study we repeated the survey by Mittins et al. (1970) in Attitudes to English Usage to investigate whether… read more
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid 2019 Usage guides and the Age of PrescriptivismNorms and Conventions in the History of English, Bös, Birte and Claudia Claridge (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Chapter
Questioning the traditional association of the Age of Prescriptivism with the 18th century, this study distinguishes between prescription as a late stage in the English standardisation process and the subsequently arising prescriptivism, with possibly stronger roots in America than the UK. The… read more
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid 2015 Five Hundred Mistakes Corrected: An early American English usage guideTransatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, Dossena, Marina (ed.), pp. 55–71 | Article
The anonymous Five hundred mistakes corrected (1856) is one of the very earliest American English usage guides. In its approach, contents and use of proscriptive metalanguage it fits into the tradition of usage guide writing, which had started in England nearly a century before and which continues,… read more
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid 2014 Eighteenth-century English normative grammars and their readersNorms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 129–150 | Article
Who were the readers of eighteenth-century normative English grammars? Because one grammar from the end of the century uniquely includes an elaborate list of subscribers, the work’s readership can be analysed. People who subscribed to Richard Postlethwaite’s Grammatical Art Improved (1795)… read more
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid 2013 Flat adverbs and Jane Austen’s lettersTouching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents, Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), pp. 91–106 | Article
The stricture against flat adverbs, adverbs without the suffix -ly, originated in the eighteenth century. In a micro-level analysis of the epistolary language of Jane Austen, this paper focuses on her use of flat adverbs. Using flat adverbs herself, Jane Austen adopted them to mark her non-standard… read more
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid 2012 Robert Lowth as a Codifier of the English Language: An introductionRobert Lowth (1710-1787): The making of his grammar and its influence, Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Obituary
This article provides an analysis of the only evidence that has — to the author’s knowledge — come down to us of the correspondence between the most authoritative 18th-century English grammarian Robert Lowth (1710–1787) and James Harris (1709–1780), author of the philosophical grammar Hermes… read more
At the end of the preface to his Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762) Robert Lowth (1710–1787) makes an appeal for comments on his work. This article analyses his correspon­dence with James Merrick (1720–1769), a friend and fellow scholar, written between December 1761 and October 1764,… read more
On the basis of an analysis of the correspondence of the 18h-century London bookseller Robert Dodsley (1703–1764), a proposal is offered concerning the origin of Robert Lowth’s (1710–1787) Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762). The author presents arguments which suggest that Lowth’s… read more
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid 1990 Exemplification in Eighteenth century grammarsPapers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Adamson, Sylvia M., Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright (eds.), pp. 481 ff. | Article
Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid 1982 Benjamin martin the linguistHistoriographia Linguistica 9:1/2, pp. 121–133 | Article
Benjamin Martin (1704–82) was a versatile character whose interests and abilities were varied and wide-spread; moreover, he was reasonably successful in practically everything he undertook. However, in a biography by John R. Millburn, Benjamin Martin: Author, Instrument-maker, and ‘Country… read more