Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England

Sociolinguistic Backprojection?Contemporary Perceptions of Usage Sociohistorical Reconstruction Research Topics Notes Sociolinguistic Paradigms and Language Change Sociolinguistic Paradigms Descriptions and Explanations Theoretical Pluralism Theory in Historical Sociolinguistics Notes Primary Data: Background and Informants Data in Historical Sociolinguistics The 'Bad-Data' Problem The Advantages of Historical Data Generic and Temporal Concerns Textual Variation and Historical Sociolinguistics Periodization Tudor and Stuart England Overall Developments and Major Changes Social Structure Migration and Regional Differences Education and Literacy The Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC)General Outline The Material The Informants: Social and Regional Coverage Notes Real Time The S-Shaped Curve Timing Linguistic Changes Previous Studies The Time Courses of Fourteen Changes Replacement of Subject ye by you My and thy versus mine and thine Possessive Determiner its Prop-word one Object of the Gerund Noun Subject of the Gerund Present Indicative Third-Person Singular Suffix -s versus -th (have and do excluded)Periphrastic do in Affirmative Statements Periphrastic do in Negative Statements Decline of Multiple Negation Inversion after Initial Adverbs and Negators Relative Pronouns which and the which Prepositional Phrase vs. Relative Adverb Indefinite Pronouns with Singular Human Reference Conclusion Notes Apparent Time Ongoing Change in Relation to Age Apparent Time in Historical Research Previous Studies Age Cohorts and Individual Participation in Ongoing Changes Age Cohorts Individuals in Successive Periods of Time Conclusion Notes Gender The Gender Paradox Historical Reconstruction Gender Inequality Implications for Historical Sociolinguistics Previous Studies Gender and Real-Time Linguistic Change Women Ahead of Men Subject form you Possessive determiner its Prop-word ONE Object of the gerund Noun subject of the gerund Third-person singular -s Indefinite pronouns with singular human reference Switches from Male to Female Advantage Periphrastic do in affirmative statements Periphrastic do in negative statements Relative adverb vs. prepositional phrase Men Ahead of Women Decline of multiple negation Inversion after initial negators Relative pronoun which Conclusion Notes Social Stratification Social Order in Sociolinguistics Reconstructing Social Order Previous Studies Social Order in Language Change Empirical Diachronic Research Full Range of Social Variation Changes along the S-Curve Subject you versus ye Object of the gerund Third-person singular -s versus -th Decline of multiple negation Relative pronoun which versus the which Origin and Direction of Language Change Evaluation: the Behaviour of Social Aspirers Conclusion Notes Regional Variation Regional Dialects in England Today Reconstructing Regional Differences in Tudor and Stuart England Stating the Problem Contemporary Views The Variability of London English The Scope of Our Study Previous Empirical Studies Regional Variation in Late Middle and Early Modern English Changes Led by the Capital Region Subject form you Object of the gerund Noun subject of the gerund Periphrastic do in affirmative statements Decline of multiple negation Relative pronoun which Relative adverb vs. prepositional phrase Changes Spreading from the North Third-person singular -s Low-Frequency Seventeenth-Century Processes Conclusion Notes Historical Patterning of Sociolinguistic Variation Modelling Variability Linguistic and Social Factors Style and Sociolinguistic Variation Modelling Sociolinguistic Variation Historically Previous Empirical Studies VARBRUL Analyses of Five Historical Changes Results Object of the gerund Summary and Conclusions Notes Language Change and the Individual Individuals as Outliers Patterns of Lifespan Change Lifespan Change in the Individual Lifespan Change in the Community Leaders of Linguistic Change Summary and Conclusions Notes Language Change: Transmission and Diffusion Complementary Perspectives on Language Change Social Networks and Language Change Two Studies of Family Networks Language Change in a Merchant Family Network Issues in Stable Variation Irregular verb forms Alveolar realization of -ing Was with plural subjects Multiple negation Corpus Stability Conclusion Notes The Changes in Retrospect The Principle of Contingency Uninterrupted Continuity of Change?Postscript Notes