Cor­po­ra and lan­guage change in late mod­ern Eng­lish Late Mod­ern Eng­lish has tra­di­tion­al­ly been con­sid­ered a peri­od of lin­guis­tic sta­bil­i­ty in terms of lan­guage stan­dard­iza­tion. How­ev­er, a care­ful exam­i­na­tion of cru­cial aspects of its inter­nal and exter­nal his­to­ry reveals that … Weit­er­lesen →