In:Letters as Loot: A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch
Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 2] 2014
► pp. v–x
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Published online: 14 November 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.2.toc
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Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Letters as Loot: A historical-sociolinguistic challenge
Chapter 2. Sounds and signs: From local to supralocal usage
Chapter 3. Epistolary formulae: Functions and text composition
Chapter 4. Variation and change in formulaic language
Chapter 5. Detailing the writing process: Formulaic language, social and professional writers, and the influence of letter-writing manuals
Chapter 6. Forms of address
Chapter 7. Clause chaining between spoken and written language
Chapter 8. Variation and change in the relative clause
Chapter 9. Apocope of final schwa
Chapter 10. Clausal and local negation
Chapter 11. Harvesting: Reflection and evaluation
References
Index
