Ingrid Marijke Tieken-Boon van Ostade (born 1954, The Hague) [1] is a professor emeritus of English Sociohistorical Linguistics at Leiden University's Centre for Linguistics. She has researched widely in the area of English socio-historical linguistics having looked at such diverse fields as English negations, historical social network analysis, the standardisation process and the language of 18th-century letters. She has recently published a book on Bishop Lowth (1710–1787) (the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar). Her work on a collaborative project on English usage was featured in the BBC Radio 4's Making History programme. [2] [3] [4]
She is the editor of the journal Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical linguistics [5] and has presented plenary sessions at important conferences and symposiums in her field. [6]
In the 2020s she is supervising the project Bridging the Unbridgeable: linguists, prescriptivists and the general public. [7]
She became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014. [8]
On the 11th of September 2020, Tieken-Boon van Ostade was appointed knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. [9]