Clumsy, awkward or having a peculiar propriety? Prescriptive judgements and language change in the 19th century  

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Anderwald, Lieselotte

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 34 no. 1 (2012), page 28-53.
Topik: 19th century English Grammar Language change Tense and aspect Grammar writing
Fulltext: vol. 34 issue 1 January, 2012. p. 28-53.pdf (953.53KB)

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This paper relates comments in British and American prescriptive grammars over the course of the 19th century to actual developments in language change of the time. Strikingly different evaluations of features demonstrably undergoing change, or indeed a complete lack of evaluations, are connected directly to two factors in linguistic reality: the stage in the S-curve occupied by the change (i.e. old vs. new changes), and the speed of change (i.e. slow vs. rapid changes), although other more diffuse factors like social evaluation, or comparison with a Latin ideal, might also play a role in contributing to salience. In sum, this paper provides a quantitative and qualitative study of comments on selected linguistic phenomena and moves one first step towards a typology of evaluative (prescriptive) judgements on grammar, linking them to actual developments in language.

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