Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900 : a sociolinguistic and comparative perspective / edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Universiteit Leiden ; Rik Vosters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel ; Wim Vandenbussche, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rutten, Gijsbert Johan, 1977- editor.

Vosters, Rik, editor.

Vandenbussche, Wim, editor.

Wal, M. J. van der, honouree.

Series:

Advances in historical sociolinguistics ; v. 3.

Advances in historical sociolinguistics, 2214-1057 ; volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Usage--History.

Language and languages.

Linguistic change--Social aspects--History.

Linguistic change.

Linguistics--Historiography.

Linguistics.

Sociolinguistics--History.

Sociolinguistics.

Language and languages--Usage.

Linguistic change--Social aspects.

History.

Genre:

History.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

vi, 334 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]

Contents:

1 Acknowledgements p. vii

2 The interplay of language norms and usage patterns. Comparing the history of Dutch, English, French and German p. 1 / Gijsbert Rutten; Rik Vosters; Wim Vandenbussche

3 Dutch

4 Language norms and language use in seventeenth-century Dutch p. 21 / Judith Nobels; Gijsbert Rutten

5 Language norms and language use in eighteenth-century Dutch p. 49 / Tanja Simons; Gijsbert Rutten

6 Norms and usage in nineteenth-century Southern Dutch p. 73 / Rik Vosters; Els Belsack; Jill Puttaert; Wim Vandenbussche

7 English

8 Norms and usage in seventeenth-century English p. 103 / Terttu Nevalainen

9 Eighteenth-century English normative grammars and their readers p. 129 / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

10 Nineteenth-century English p. 151 / Anita Auer

11 French

12 From l'usage to le bon usage and back p. 173 / Wendy Ayres-Bennett

13 Jacques-Louis Ménétra and his experience of the langue d'oc p. 201 / R. Anthony Lodge

14 From local to supra-local p. 223 / France Martineau; Sandrine Tailleur

15 German

16 Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German p. 251 / Nicola McLelland

17 Standard German in the eighteenth century p. 277 / Nils Langer

18 Prescriptive norms and norms of usage in nineteenth-century German p. 303 / Stephan Elspass

19 Index p. 321.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900

ISBN:

9789027200822

9027200823

OCLC:

898717496