The book offers insight into the publication history of eighteenth-century English grammars in unprecedented detail. It is based on a close analysis of various

The eighteenth century was a key period in the development of the English language, in which the modern standard emerged and many dictionaries and grammars firs

Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The

This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.

The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The vol