The studies presented in this volume concentrate on aspects of Late Modern English correspondence in the usage of individuals belonging to different social clas

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as cultural practice, and several studies have appeared, mainly

Papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Late Modern English, held at the University of Leiden in 2007.

Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research h

The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the exi