Current issues in late modern English
By: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade & Wim van der Wurff (eds).
Contributors: Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid.; Wurff, Wim van der.
Series: Linguistic insights : -- vol. 77
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9783039116607
Subjects: English language -- 18th century -- Congresses; English language -- 19th century -- Congresses; English language -- 20th century -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Papers presented at the  3rd International Conference on Late Modern English, held at the University of Leiden in 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prescriptive and normative concerns. Three hundred years of prescriptivism (and counting) / JOAN C. BEAL; title: Deontic and epistemic modals as indicators of prescriptive and descriptive language in the grammars by Joseph Priestley and Robert Lowth / ROBIN STRAAIJER; title: "Telling people how to speak" : rhetorical grammars and pronouncing dictionaries / RAYMOND HICKEY; title: Periodical reviews and the rise of prescriptivism: The monthly (1749-1844) and Critical Review (1756-1817) in the eighteenth century / CAROL PERCY; title: Late Modern work on the English language. The ECEG-database: a bio-bibliographical approach to the study of eighteenthcentury English grammars / MARA ESTHER RODRiGUEZGIL and NURIA YEZBOUZA; title: "With a concise historical account of the language": outlines of the history of English in eighteenth-century dictionaries / ALICIA RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ; title: The Oxford English Dictionary's treatment of female-authored sources of the eighteenth century / CHARLOTTE BREWER; title: Living history: Andrew Clark, the OED and the language of the First World War / LYNDA MUGGLESTONE; title: Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and its sources / MANFRED MARKUS; title: Studies in grammar and lexis. The Irish contribution to the English language during the Late Modern period / DANIELA CESIRI; title: Grammatical divergence between British and American English in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / GUNTER ROHDENBURG; title: Interpretative progressives in Late Modern English / SVENJA KRANICH; title: Studies on letters. The problem of small numbers: methodological issues in social network analysis / FROUKJE HENSTRA; title: Plain speech in Lindley Murray's letters: peculiar or polite? / LYDA FENS-DE ZEEUW; title: She has four and big agane: ellipses and prostheses in mechanically-schooled writing in England, 1795-1834 / TONY FAIRMAN.