Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Setting the scene; 2 Ongoing language change: problems of detection and verification; 3 Lexical change in twentieth-century English; 4 Grammatical changes in twentieth-century English; 5 Pronunciation; 6 Language change in context: changing communicative and discourse norms in twentieth-century English; Conclusion; Appendix 1 Brief survey of the corpora used for the present study; Appendix 2 The OED Baseline Corpora; Appendix 3 Estimating text size in the newspaper archives and the World Wide Web
Summary
Documents changes to the vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation of Standard English over the past century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index
