Papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Late Modern English, held at the University of Leiden in 2007.

The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters

Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research h

This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing i

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and 1900, the la