Revised and updated versions of papers presented at a workshop of the 1997 ESSE conference in Debrecen, Hungary held September 5-9, 1997, and the HESCO conference in Tulln, held September 11-14, 1997
Includes bibliographical references and index
Excellent in Shakespeare / Norman Blake -- Address pronouns in Shakespeare's English : a re-appraisal in terms of markedness -- Gender voices in the spoken interaction of the past : a pilot study based on Early Modern English trial proceedings / Jonathan Culpeper and Merja Kytö -- Is there a social element in English word-stress? : explorations into a non-categorial treatment of English stress : a long-term view / Christiane Dalton-Puffer -- The modal verb shall between grammar and usage in the nineteenth century / Roberta Facchinetti -- Social relations and forms of address in the Canterbury tales / Gabriella Mazzon -- Covert and overt language attitudes to the Scots tongue expressed in the Statistical accounts of Scotland / Robert McColl Millar (with the assistance of Dauvit Horsbroch) -- Fashionable idiolects? : the use of the negative prefix dis- 1520-1620 / Roderick W. McConchie -- On the conditioning of geographical and social distance in language variation and change in Renaissance Scots / Anneli Meurman-Solin --
The influence of political correctness on lexical and grammatical change in late-twentieth-century English / Stephen J. Nagle, Margaret A. Fain, and Sara L. Sanders -- The changing role of London on the linguistic map of Tudor and Stuart England / Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg -- The rise and regulation of periphrastic do in negative declarative sentences : a sociolinguistic study / Arja Nurmi -- Shibboleths galore : the treatment of Irish and Scottish English in histories of the English language / Clausdirk Pollner -- Ethnolinguistic identity as common denominator : a socio-historical investigation of the lexical items for 'people' in South African English / Ute Smit -- Perceived and real differences between men's and women's spellings of the early to mid-seventeenth century / Margaret J.-M. Sönmez -- Sociohistorical linguistics and the observer's paradox / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
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English language-- Grammar, Historical, Congresses