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