Project results

Recent publications from members of the Codifiers project.

Books


Articles

2009:

  • Fens-de Zeeuw, Lyda (2009). "Plain Speech in Lindley Murray's Letters: Peculiar or Polite?". In: Ingrid-Tieken Boon van Ostade & Wim van der Wurff (eds.). Proceedings of the 3rd Late Modern English Conference, Leiden. Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 391-408.
  • Henstra, Froukje and Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2009). “Sir Horace Walpole en nieuwe functiebenamingen op –ess”. In: Ronny Boogaart, Josien Lalleman, Marijke Mooijaart & Marijke van der Wal (eds.). Woorden Wisselen. Voor Ariane van Santen bij haar afscheid van de Leidse Universiteit. Leiden: Stichting Neerlandistiek Leiden. pp. 53-64.
  • Henstra, Froukje (2009). “You was and the problem of small numbers: some issues concerning social network analysis”. In: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade & Wim van der Wurff (eds.). Proceedings of the 3rd Late Modern English Conference, Leiden. Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 361-390.
  • Navest, Karlijn (2009). "Reading Lessons for 'baby grammarians': Lady Ellenor Fenn and the teaching of English grammar". In: Morag Styles and Evelyn Arizpe (eds.), Acts of Reading: Teachers, Texts, and Childhood. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham. pp. 73-86.
  • Straaijer, Robin (2009). "Deontic and epistemic modals as indicators of prescriptive and descriptive language in the grammars of Joseph Priestley and Robert Lowth. In: Ingrid-Tieken Boon van Ostade & Wim van der Wurff (eds.). Proceedings of the 3rd Late Modern English Conference, Leiden. Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 57-87.    
  2008:
  • Auer, Anita (2008). “Eighteenth-Century Grammars and Book Catalogues”, in Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (ed.) Grammars, Grammarians, and Grammar Writing in Eighteenth-Century England. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 57-75.
  • Auer, Anita (2008). “Lest the Situation Deteriorates – A Study of Lest as Trigger of the Inflectional Subjunctive”. In: Miriam Locher and Jürg Strässler (eds.), Standards and Norms in the English Language. Berlijn/NewYork: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Auer, Anita (2008). “The Letter which that I Wrote – Self-Corrections in LModE Letters”, Marina Dossena and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (eds.). Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence: Methodology and Data. Bern: Lang, pp. 212-234.
  • Fens-de Zeeuw, Lyda (2008). "The Letter-Writing Manual in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: From Polite to Practical." In Marina Dossena and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (eds.), Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence: Methodology and Data. Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 163-92.
  • Henstra, Froukje (2008). “Social Network Analysis and the Eighteenth-Century Family Network. A Case Study of the Walpole Family”. Transactions of the Philological Society 106/1. 29-70.
  • Navest, Karlijn (2008). “Ash’s Grammatical Institutes and ‘Mrs Teachwell’s Library for her Young Ladies’”. In: Joan C. Beal, Carmela Nocera and Massimo Sturiale (eds.), Perspectives on Prescriptivism. Bern: Peter Lang. 59-82.
  • Navest, Karlijn (2008). “‘Borrowing a few passages’: Lady Ellenor Fenn and her use of sources”. In: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (ed.), Grammars, Grammarians, and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 223-249.
  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2008). “Henry Fowler and his eighteenth-century predecessors”, Bulletin of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas 51, pp. 21-24.
  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (with Fátima Mariá Faya Cerqueiro)(2008). “Saying please in Late Modern English”. In: Javier Pérez-guerra, Dolores González-Álvarez, Jorge L. Bueno-Alonso and Esperanza Rama-Martínez (eds.), “Of Varying Language and opposing creed”. New Insights into Late Modern English. Bern etc.: Peter Lang. pp. 431-444.
  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2008). “The anonymity of Lowth's grammar”. In: Lo van Driel and Theo Janssen (eds.), Ontheven aan de Tijd. Linguïstisch-Historische Studies voor Jan Noordegraaf. Amsterdam: Stichting Neerlandistiek/Münster: Nodus Publikationen. 125-134.
  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2008). “The codifiers and the history of multiple negation in English, or, Why were the 18th-century grammarians so obsessed with double negation?” In: Joan C. Beal, Carmela Nocera and Massimo Sturiale (eds.), Perspectives on Prescriptivism. Bern: Peter Lang. 197-214.
2007:
  • Chaudron, Patricia (2007). “Thomas Spence (21 June 1750-8 September 1814)”. HSL/SHL 7. 2007. (, Contents, Authors’ language.)
  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2007). Lowth als icoon van het prescriptivisme, Leiden, 1 juni 2007 (oratie).
  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (met Anita Auer) (2007). “Robert Lowth and the use of the inflectional subjunctive in eighteenth-century English”. In: Ute Smit, Stefan Dollinger, Julia Hüttner, Gunther Kaltenböck and Ursula Lutzky (eds.), Tracing English through Time . Explorations in Language Variation. Wien: Braumüller. 1-16.
2006:
  • Auer, Anita (2006). Review of Minna Pallander-Collin and Minna Nevala (eds.) (2005), Letters and Letter Writing . HSL/SHL 6. 2006. (http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/hsl_shl/, Contents, Reviews.)
  • Navest, Karlijn (2006). “An index of names to Lowth’s Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762), (1763), (1764)”. HSL/SHL 6. 2006. (, Contents, Articles.)
  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2006). “Finding and publishing Late Modern English Letters”. The Eighteenth-century Intelligencer 20/2. 13-18.
  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2006). “ECCO and the Codifiers of the English Language”. In: Erik Kooper (ed.), Current Research in Dutch Universities and Polytechnics on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics. Papers read at the Twenty-Seventh Research Symposium, Utrecht, 16 December 2005. 19-25.
  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid en Karlijn Navest (2006). “Introduction” to: Karlijn Navest, “An index of names to Lowth’s Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762), (1763), (1764)”. HSL/SHL 6. 2006. (, Contents, Articles.)
2005:
  • Navest, Karlijn (2005). “Lowth, Robert (1710-1787)”. In: Keith Brown and Anne H. Anderson (eds.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Oxford: Elsevier.
  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (2005). “Bad English and the grammarians”. Finn-Brits Magazine, Autumn 2005. 8-14.

Prizes

  • Robin Straaijer: 3LModE Young Scholars Award (2007)
  • Christine Erkelens: Jan Kijne onderzoeksprijs (Pre-University College, 2009)
  • Lyda Fens-de Zeeuw: Best Student Presentations (Prescriptivism(e) & Patriotism(e), 2009)  

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