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Letters as loot : a sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch /

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The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from th...

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Main Authors: Rutten, Gijsbert Johan, 1977- (Author), Wal, M. J. van der (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Series:Advances in historical sociolinguistics ; 2.
Subjects:
Sociolinguistics > Netherlands > History.
Linguistic change > Social aspects > History.
Letter writing, Dutch > History > 17th century.
Letter writing, Dutch > History > 18th century.
Historical linguistics.
Sociolinguistique > Pays-Bas > Histoire.
Changement linguistique > Aspect social > Histoire.
Linguistique historique.
historical linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Historical linguistics
Letter writing, Dutch
Linguistic change > Social aspects
Sociolinguistics
Netherlands
1600-1799
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelim pages
  • Table of contents
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. Letters as Loot
  • Chapter 2. Sounds and signs
  • Chapter 3. Epistolary formulae
  • Chapter 4. Variation and change in formulaic language
  • Chapter 5. Detailing the writing process
  • Chapter 6. Forms of address
  • Chapter 7. Clause chaining between spoken and written language
  • Chapter 8. Variation and change in the relative clause
  • Chapter 9. Apocope of final schwa
  • Chapter 10. Clausal and local negation
  • Chapter 11. Harvesting
  • References
  • Index