Introduction
Journal Title: Token: A Journal of English Linguistics - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Over the last two decades the scholarly attention paid to Late Modern English (henceforth LModE) has greatly increased: several volumes, articles and book chapters have appeared on codification of eighteenth- and nineteenth‑century usage, such as Görlach (1998), Mitchell (2001), Tieken‑Boon van Ostade (2008) and Beal – Nocera – Sturiale (2008); phonology has been discussed in the works of Mugglestone (2003), Beal (2004), and Jones (2005); and more encompassing texts have been published by Bailey (1996), Görlach (1999 and 2001), Fitzmaurice (2000), Dossena – Jones (2003), Kytö – Rydén – Smitterberg (2006), Pérez-Guerra et al. (2007), Tieken‑Boon van Ostade (2009), and Tieken‑Boon van Ostade – van der Wurff (2009). Finally, the chapters in Bergs – Brinton (2012: section VI) provide a recent, comprehensive overview of the main features of LModE syntax, morphology, phonology, lexicon and pragmatic features, also devoting attention to sociolinguistic and geographical variation, and to standardization issues. The studies presented by Dossena – Tieken‑Boon van Ostade (2008), Pahta et al. (2010), Hickey (2010), and Dossena – Del Lungo Camiciotti (2012) bear witness to the sociolinguistic interest of different text types. At the same time, a new approach to language history ‘from below’ (Vandenbussche – Elspaß 2007 and Elspaß 2012a and 2012b) has enabled scholarly interest to move beyond the usage of educated informants, recorded in literary and other printed documents, to consider the usage of partly-schooled writers – a large and previously ignored set of data: see for instance Fairman (2003) and Dossena (2007 and 2008).
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Marina Dossena
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