Syntactic Change in Late Modern English

Erik Smitterberg is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics in the Department of English at Uppsala University. Recent publications include Late Modern English (co-edited, 2020).

'… Erik Smitterberg deserves praise for a twin achievement. For those readers who are primarily interested in Late Modern English syntax as it relates to colloquialisation and densification, his book provides rich corpus illustration and cogent analyses on many points of detail. Readers coming to the book with a more general interest in the role of corpus approaches in modelling syntactic change will benefit from much intelligent discussion of how the collective community record preserved in corpora relates to the historical dynamics of social networks and individual usage.' Christian Mair, English Language and Linguistics

• 1. Introduction; 2. Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Change in Late Modern English; 3. Aspects of Language Change; 4. Methodological Framework; 5. Colloquialization I: Not-Contraction; 6. Colloquialization II: Co-Ordination by and; 7. Densification I: Nouns as Premodifiers in Noun Phrases; 8. Densification II: Participle Clauses as Postmodifiers in Noun Phrases; 9. Concluding Discussion; Appendix; References; Index.