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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
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