In:Norms and Conventions in the History of English
Edited by Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 347] 2019
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Published online: 27 May 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.347.toc
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Table of contents
Linguistic norms and conventions: Past and present1
Birte Bös
Claudia Claridge
Usage guides and the Age of Prescriptivism7
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
“Splendidly prejudiced”: Words for disapproval in English usage guides29
Don Chapman
Paradigm shifts in 19th-century British grammar writing – A network of texts and authors49
Beatrix Busse
Kirsten Gather
Ingo Kleiber
Promotional conventions on English title-pages up to 1550: Modifiers of time, scope, and quality73
Mari-Liisa Varila
Matti Peikola
What can we learn from constructed speech errors? Mrs Malaprop revisited99
Lucia Kornexl
The proverbial discourse tradition in the history of English: A usage-based view129
Claudia Lückert
Testing a stylometric tool in the study of Middle English documentary texts149
Martti Mäkinen
Pragmatic and formulaic uses of Shall and Will in Older Scots and Early Modern English official letter writing167
Christine Elsweiler
Studying dialect spelling in its own right: Suggestions from a case study191
Göran Wolf
Index213
