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

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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

This book provides a fresh perspective on language change in Late Modern English, and is illustrated with corpus-linguistic case studies.