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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788183703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 90-272-6879-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Collana: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics
• Disciplina: 418.009
• Soggetti: Language and languages - Usage - History; Linguistic change - Social aspects - History; Linguistics - Historiography; Sociolinguistics - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 1.2 The socio-cultural context
• Sommario/riassunto: The nineteenth century has attracted considerable interest in German historical (socio)linguistics over the last twenty-five years, as it is considered to be the century in which the 'roots' of present-day German can be found. A great deal of the research literature has been devoted to the rise of standard German. Little attention has been paid to the relationship between norms and usage. In order to gain an understanding of their complex relationship, this chapter will first look at socio-historical developments and language ideologies which can be seen as crucial for the external language hi