All Stories

  1. Finding meaning in discursive concepts in Early Modern English
  2. Volatile concepts
  3. Looking for concepts in Early Modern English
  4. Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe
  5. Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe, a research agenda
  6. Reading into the past
  7. Linguistic DNA: Investigating Conceptual Change in Early Modern English Discourse
  8. When natives became Africans: A historical sociolinguistic study of semantic change in colonial discourse
  9. Review of van der Wal & Rutten (2013): Touching the Past: Studies in the Historical Sociolinguistics of Ego-Documents
  10. The sociopragmatics of a lovers' spat
  11. Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England. Edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
  12. The sociopragmatics of a lovers’ spat
  13. Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
  14. 12. The textual resolution of structural ambiguity in eighteenth-century English
  15. The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English
  16. “Plethoras of witty verbiage” and “heathen Greek”
  17. Review of Taavitsainen, Melchers & Pahta (1999): Writing in Nonstandard English
  18. Remarks on the de-grammaticalisation of infinitival to in present-day American English
  19. Some remarks on the rhetoric of historical pragmatics
  20. Grammaticalisation, Textuality and Subjectivity