Tag Archives: Horace Walpole

Periphrastic do and Colonial Lag

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

And since she sent me both blogposts all at once, here is Esther Spaanderman’s second one, also on the Adams Papers: “But as I speak french very imperfectly and she understands not a syllable of English I suppose she did … Continue reading →

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Dont vs. don’t: early American usage?

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

Esther Spaanderman is the last of my students who owes us her blogposts. Here is the first one: A while ago, I studied periphrastic do in the letters of John Adams (1735-1826), the second president of the United States. As … Continue reading →

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Horace Walpole’s letters online

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

Horace Walpole was an inveterate letter writer, and his correspondence is probably the largest collection of letters that is available for analysis, linguistic and otherwise. Froukje Henstra is writing a PhD thesis on the language of the letters. A short … Continue reading →

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