Towards a standard English, 1600-1800

Frontmatter --; Contents --; Sorting out the variants: Standardization and social factors in the English language 1600-1800 /; The notion of "standard language" and its applicability to the study of Early Modern English pronunciation /; "Politeness" as linguistic ideology in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England /; Language standardization in eighteenth-century Scotland /; Prestige norms in stage plays, 1600-1800 /; Proliferation and option-cutting: The strong verb in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries /; Standardization and the English irregular verbs /; The differentiation of statives and perfects in early modern English: The development of the conclusive perfect /; Its strength and the beauty of it: The standardization of the third person neuter possessive in Early Modern English /; Standard and non-standard pronominal usage in English, with special reference to the eighteenth century /; The critic and the grammarians: Joseph Addison and the prescriptivists /; The effect of exposure to standard English: The language of William Clift /; Index / Stein, Dieter --; Milroy, James --; Klein, Lawrence --; Frank, Thomas --; McIntosh, Carey --; Lass, Roger --; Cheshire, Jenny --; Brinton, Laurel J. --; Nevalainen, Terttu / Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena --; Ostade, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van --; Wright, Susan --; Austin, Frances --