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. v–viii
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Published online: 6 September 2018
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Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgments
Contributors
Part I.Introduction and background
Chapter 1.Approaching change in 18th-century English
Terttu Nevalainen
Chapter 2.Society and culture in the long 18th century
Terttu Nevalainen
[Infobox]Range of writers in the CEECE
Terttu Nevalainen
[Infobox]Polite society and rhetoric
Arja Nurmi
Minna Nevala
Chapter 3.Grammar writing in the eighteenth century
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
Chapter 4.The corpus of early English correspondence extension (CEECE)
Samuli Kaislaniemi
[Infobox]Data retrieval
Mikko Hakala
Chapter 5.Research methods
5.1Quantifying change
Terttu Nevalainen
5.2Basic methods for estimating frequencies
Terttu Nevalainen
5.3Methods for studying changes lacking a variable
Tanja Säily
Arja Nurmi
Anni Sairio
Part II.Studies
Chapter 6.“Ungenteel” and “rude”? On the use of thou in the eighteenth century
Minna Nevala
Chapter 7.Going to completion: The diffusion of verbal ‑s
Terttu Nevalainen
Chapter 8.Periphrastic do in eighteenth-century correspondence: Emphasis on no social variation
Arja Nurmi
Chapter 9.Indefinite pronouns with singular human reference: Recessive and ongoing
Mikko Laitinen
Chapter 10.Ongoing change: The diffusion of the third-person neuter possessive its
Minna Palander-Collin
Chapter 11.Incipient and intimate: The progressive aspect
Anni Sairio
Chapter 12.Change or variation? Productivity of the suffixes ‑ness and ‑ity
Tanja Säily
Part III.Studies
Chapter 13.Zooming out: Overall frequencies and Google books
13.1Normalised frequencies of the phenomena studied
Tanja Säily
13.2Google Books: A shortcut to studying language variability?
Mikko Laitinen
Tanja Säily
Chapter 14.Conservative and progressive individuals
Tanja Säily
Chapter 15.Changes in different stages
Anni Sairio
15.1Introduction
Minna Palander-Collin
15.2From incipient to mid-range and beyond
Minna Palander-Collin
Mikko Laitinen
Anni Sairio
Tanja Säily
15.3From nearing completion to completed
Terttu Nevalainen
Mikko Laitinen
Minna Nevala
Arja Nurmi
Chapter 16.A wider sociolinguistic perspective
Terttu Nevalainen
References
Appendix: Editions in the Corpora of early English correspondence
Arja Nurmi
Samuli Kaislaniemi
Index
