In:Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 8] 2018
► pp. 197–218
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Chapter 12Change or variation? Productivity of the suffixes ‑ness and ‑ity
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Published online: 6 September 2018
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Article outline
- 12.1Introduction
- 12.2Theoretical background
- 12.3Previous research
- 12.4Research questions
- 12.5Results
- 12.5.1Overall trends
- 12.5.2Social categories
- 12.5.3Case studies
- 12.5.3.1Individual outliers
- 12.5.3.2Royalty vs. the Clifts
- 12.5.3.3Semantics
- 12.5.4Normative grammar
- 12.6Conclusion
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