Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

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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]

She is currently 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, Tieken-Boon van Ostade was appointed knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. [9]

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  1. ↑ "Ingrid Marijke Tieken-Boon van Ostade at "Leiden Faculty since 1575"". Archived from the original on 28 November 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  2. ↑ University of Leiden: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
  3. ↑ University of Leiden: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
  4. ↑ Holland, Tom (18 October 2011). "Making History". BBC Radio 4.
  5. ↑ Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical linguistics
  6. ↑ These include the "Age and the Codification of the English Language", plenary at GlobE Warsaw, 21–23 September (2006) and "Lowth’s language", plenary lecture at the Late Modern English Conference,(2001) Edinburgh.
  7. ↑ Bridging the Unbridedgeable
  8. ↑ "Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 14 February 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "Royal distinction for linguist Ingrid Tieken". Universiteit Leiden. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  10. ↑ Rutten, T. (2012) "Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade : the Bishop's Grammar. Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism." Linguistische Berichte. 237-240.
  11. ↑ Berglund, L. (2011) "The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism in English by Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America. 32 : 179-181.
  12. ↑ Mandelbrote, S. (2012) "Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade, the Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism in English (Oxford, 2011)." Historiographia Linguistica. 39 398-402.
  13. ↑ Haddon, J. (2011) "An Introduction to Late Modern English, by Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade." The Use of English. 62.3 275-278.
  14. ↑ Smitterberg, Erik. (2011) "Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade, an Introduction to Late Modern English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Pp. X + 166. ISBN   978 0 7486 2598 7." English Language and Linguistics. 15.1 173-183
  15. ↑ Marsden, Sharon,(2011)"[review Of] an Introduction to Late Modern English." Language in Society. 40.3 : 398-399
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