In the 19th century, education became accessible to much wider circles of society in a great number and variety of schools and the teaching of grammar came to b

In the 19th century, education became accessible to much wider circles of society in a great number and variety of schools and the teaching of grammar came to b

This book surveys the features of nineteenth-century English and provides over 100 sample texts and numerous exercises.

This book investigates the connections between evaluative judgements on language and the larger social, cultural, and political issues that shed light on the pr

Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography. Extensive research on newly uncov