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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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Studying the language of letters

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

If you write a PhD in the Netherlands, you usually have to supply a set of so-called “stellingen” (scholarly propositions) along with the printed book. I defended my PhD in 1987, and my thesis was called The Auxiliary Do in Eighteenth-Century … Continue reading →

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