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.

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"Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography. Extensive research on newly uncovered textual resources has shown the widespread variation in the written language of the past that was previously hidden or neglected. The time has come to integrate both perspectives, and to reassess the importance of language norms, standardization and prescription on the basis of sound empirical studies of large corpora of texts. The chapters in this volume discuss the interplay of language norms and language use in the history of Dutch, English, French and German between 1600 and 1900. Written by leading experts in the field, each chapter focuses on one language and one century. A substantial introductory chapter puts the twelve research chapters into a comparative perspective."-- Publisher's Web site.

Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600-1900; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; The interplay of language norms and usage patterns; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of the contributions; 3. Phased standardization and diaglossia; 3.1 Target groups and nationalization; 3.2 Standard language ideology; 3.3 Sources; 3.4 Supralocalization; 3.5 Diaglossia and diglossia; References; Language norms and language use in seventeenth-century Dutch: Negation and the genitive; 1. Introduction; 2. Texts and corpora; 3. The normative tradition; 4. Case study 1: Negation.

4.1 Negation in the history of Dutch4.2 Results; 5. Case study 2: Genitival constructions; 5.1 The genitive case and deflection; 5.2 Results; 6. Discussion and conclusions; Websites; References; Language norms and language use in eighteenth-century Dutch: Final n and the genitive; 1. Introduction; 2. Texts and corpora; 3. Language norms; 4. Case study 1: n-deletion; 4.1 Deletion of final n in Dutch; 4.2 Results; 5. Case study 2: Genitival constructions; 5.1 The genitive case and deflection; 5.2 Results; 6. Discussion and conclusions; Websites; References.

Norms and usage in nineteenth-century Southern Dutch1. Introduction ; 2. Prescriptivism and explicit language norms; 2.1 North; 2.2 South; 2.2.1 Early eighteenth century; 2.2.2 Later eighteenth century; 2.2.3 United Kingdom of the Netherlands; 3. Three case studies; 4. Prescriptions and typical usage in normative works; 4.1 Long A; 4.2 Verbal endings; 4.3 E + R clusters; 4.4 Overview; 5. Usage in a corpus of early nineteenth-century manuscripts; 6. Discussion: Norms and usage; 7. Conclusion; References; Norms and usage in seventeenth-century English; 1. Introduction.

1.1 Language regulation and speaker agency1.2 Vernacularization; 1.3 Accessing actual usage and targeting norms; 2. Attitudes to varieties and normative regulation; 2.1 Views on varieties; 2.2 Proposals for normative regulation; 3. Emergent norms in the seventeenth century; 3.1 Spelling; 3.2 Lexis; 3.3 Literary language; 4. Sources for the study of seventeenth-century usage; 4.1 Dictionaries and lexicons; 4.2 Contemporary grammars; 4.3 Corpora and databases; 5. Comparing norms and usage; 5.1 Spelling; 5.2 Vocabulary; 5.3 Grammar; 6. Conclusion; Appendix: Corpora and databases; References.

Eighteenth-century English normative grammars and their readers1. Introduction ; 2. The subscribers to Postlethwaite's grammar; 3. Postlethwaite and Lowth's grammar; 4. From grammars to usage guides; 4. Conclusion; References; Nineteenth-century English; 1. Introduction; 2. Grammar writing in nineteenth-century England; 3. Schooling in nineteenth-century England; 4. Nineteenth-century language usage; 5. Concluding remarks; Corpora and databases; References; From l'usage to le bon usage and back; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Codification and prescription in seventeenth-century France.

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