Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade
Biographic Data
| ID | 1042498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ingrid Tieken-Boon |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Ostade |
| SIGNATURE | VAN OSTADE I T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4362-6188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In Memoriam Noel Osselton (1927–2024)
Language Use in Past and Present
Migrant churches in The Hague – new religious and linguistic opportunities for churchgoers
The Hague, the third largest city of The Netherlands, is a multicultural and multi-ethnic urban centre with many migrant churches scattered across the city. This article examines the linguistic presence and identity of a select number of English-speaking churches and their identification through Linguistic Landscaping. Our findings show that, while it is claimed that Dutch society is becoming increasingly secularised, the many migrant and other i…
Jane Austen’s Will – and Those of the Two Cassandras
Language Use in Past and Present
How Chinese is The Hague’s Chinatown
Tiny though it is, The Hague's Chinatown is clearly presented as such, with Chinese lanterns, municipal street signage in Chinese characters, and sayings in Classical Chinese lining the streets.Doing fieldwork in the area, however, has shown that it proves to be less Chinese than its visual representation suggests.Few Chinese still inhabit the area, which used to flourish after it had ceased to be a Jewish neighbourhood.Now, only about forty per …
In Memoriam – Frances Austin (1935–2023)
Language Use in Past and Present
Haagse Harry , a Dutch chav from The Hague
This paper presents two remarkably similar characterological figures who are stereotyped embodiments of working-class personas: Haagse Harry in The Hague and chavs in England. The two figures have similar attires, class positions, attitudes, and associated attributes. We compare and contextualize the indexical links between their linguistic features and their social characteristics. Firstly, while chavs can be both men and women, the fictional pe…
Of greengrocers, sports commentators, estate agents and television presenters
Weiner (Citation1988. “On Editing a Usage Guide.” In Words for Robert Burchfield’s Sixty-Fifth Birthday, edited by E. G. Stanley, and T. F. Hoad, 171–183. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 173) describes usage guides as being ‘as broad as the English language, covering spelling, punctuation, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis, and involving sociolinguistic considerations’. This paper focusses on these ‘sociolinguistic considerations’, to try and answ…
Analysing the huge mailbag
Just after the start of the research project Bridging the Unbridgeable: Linguists, Prescriptivists and the General Public in 2011, we laid our hands on a file called ‘Reactions to L. Trap’. The file contains well over 200 documents: letters, picture postcards, notes, newspaper clippings, and various other items, almost all of them relating to the reception of a pamphlet called The Language Trap , written by John Honey (1933–2001) and published in…
Prescriptivism in a Comparative Perspective
Prescriptivism in English literature
One of the things we discovered in the course of the Bridging the Unbridgeable project is that usage guides are predominantly produced by non-specialists. There are linguists, too, who wrote usage guides – David Crystal, for instance, Pam Peters and most recently Stephen Pinker – but authors are very often journalists and novelists. Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), whose The King's English was published posthumously in 1997, is a good example, and so i…
Prescription and Tradition in Language
This book crystallises key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, contextualising case studies across languages and cultures. It breaks new ground with its multilingual approach, helping to balance the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism.
Flat adverbs
In February 2015, Catherine Bennett published a piece called “Modern Tribes: the grammar pedant” in The Guardian Online . The article focused on so-called usage problems – instances of divided usage concerning grammar, vocabulary or spelling that many people have strong opinions about. (The previous sentence is a good example of such a usage problem: can you indeed end a sentence with a preposition, for instance?) The article itself was not very …
Have went
The previous issue of English Today announced the start of a regular feature on questions of English usage and other relevant issues that are being studied in the research project ‘Bridging the Unbridgeable: Linguists, Prescriptivists and the General Public’ that is being carried out at the University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics. The first question we would like to have feedback on from readers of English Today relates to the acceptability o…
To My Dearest Sister Cassandra”
Short though it is, Jane Austen's Will contains all the elements of a traditional Will. Only the names of witnesses are missing, which would have made it invalid. Drawing on Ulrich Bach's study of Wills from the Early Modern English period, this article analyses the structure of Jane Austen's Will as well as its formulaic language, focusing on features like spelling, punctuation, grammar and lexis. Studying the probate copy of the Will, which inc…
Jane Austen’s Letters (Fourth Edition)
Notes1Baker, 123.2Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Search, 203.3See Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Search, 6.4Tieken-Boon van Ostade, “To my dearest,” 331–2
Studying attitudes to English usage
Attitudes to English Usage is the title of a book published in 1970 by W. H. Mittins, Mary Salu, Mary Edminson and Sheila Coyne from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne that reported on an enquiry held among some 450 informants concerning the acceptability of 55 usage items. These items had been selected because they were at the time ‘subject to variation in practice and dispute in theory’ (Mittins et al., 1970: 4), and they include sentences l…
Towards a Standard English
An Introduction to English Sociolinguistics
An Introduction to English Sociolinguistics GRAEME TROUSDALE Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2010 xiii + 152 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7486-2325-9, £15.99 This slim volume is part of a series of Edin
My imperfect attempt towards an English Grammar
This article provides an analysis of the only evidence that has - to the author's knowledge - come down to us of the correspondence between the most authoritative 18th-century English grammarian Robert Lowth (1710-1787) and James Harris (1709-1780), author of the philosophical grammar Hermes (1751). The two extant letters uniquely provide insight into Lowth's views on the pedagogical function of his grammar, on the innovatory aspect of his critic…
Robert Lowth as a Codifier of the English Language
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The usage guide
The most proscriptive eighteenth-century grammar of English, according to Sundby et al. (1991), is Knowles's Principles of English Grammar (1796). With 722 comments in which grammatical mistakes are criticised, Knowles heads the list which Sundby et al. compiled for their Dictionary of Normative Grammar . The copy of Knowles's grammar which Sundby et al. analysed was the fourth edition; the grammar had first come out in 1785 in Liverpool, and it …
Zero tolerance of prescriptivism
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James Merrick (1720-1769)
At the end of the preface to hisShort Introduction to English Grammar(1762) Robert Lowth (1710-1787) makes an appeal for comments on his work. This article analyses his correspondence with James Merrick (1720-1769), a friend and fellow scholar, written between December 1761 and October 1764, in which he receives such comments. The discussion is an illustration of the current debate at the time as to whether Custom or Propriety should be invoked i…
Robert Lowth and the strong verb system
A little learning a dangerous thing
Robert Dodsley and the Genesis of Lowth's
On the basis of an analysis of the correspondence of the 18h-century London bookseller Robert Dodsley (1703-1764), a proposal is offered concerning the origin of Robert Lowth's (1710-1787) Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762). The author presents arguments which suggest that Lowth's grammar was not his own idea but that of Dodsley, who also invoked the assistance of another author whose work he published, William Melmoth (1710-1799). If t…
Robert Lowth and the strong verb system
How Chinese is The Hague’s Chinatown
Tiny though it is, The Hague's Chinatown is clearly presented as such, with Chinese lanterns, municipal street signage in Chinese characters, and sayings in Classical Chinese lining the streets.Doing fieldwork in the area, however, has shown that it proves to be less Chinese than its visual representation suggests.Few Chinese still inhabit the area, which used to flourish after it had ceased to be a Jewish neighbourhood.Now, only about forty per …
Migrant churches in The Hague – new religious and linguistic opportunities for churchgoers
The Hague, the third largest city of The Netherlands, is a multicultural and multi-ethnic urban centre with many migrant churches scattered across the city. This article examines the linguistic presence and identity of a select number of English-speaking churches and their identification through Linguistic Landscaping. Our findings show that, while it is claimed that Dutch society is becoming increasingly secularised, the many migrant and other i…
James Merrick (1720-1769)
At the end of the preface to hisShort Introduction to English Grammar(1762) Robert Lowth (1710-1787) makes an appeal for comments on his work. This article analyses his correspondence with James Merrick (1720-1769), a friend and fellow scholar, written between December 1761 and October 1764, in which he receives such comments. The discussion is an illustration of the current debate at the time as to whether Custom or Propriety should be invoked i…
A little learning a dangerous thing
Stripping the layers
Benjamin martin the linguist
Benjamin Martin (1704-82) was a versatile character whose interests and abilities were varied and wide-spread; moreover, he was reasonably successful in practically everything he undertook. However, in a biography by John R. Millburn, Benjamin Martin: Author, Instrument-maker, and 'Country Showman' (Leyden, 1976), his linguistic career is not treated as fully as it might have been. In a period of almost 20 years (1748-66) Martin published one dic…
Do - Support in the Writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Dr Johnson and the Auxiliary Dothis Article Was First Published in Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 33, 1988, 22 - 39
Article DR JOHNSON AND THE AUXILIARY DOThis article was first published in Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 33, 1988, 22 - 39 was published on January 1, 1989 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 23, issue Historica-vol-10-1-2)
The Origin and Development of Periphrastic Auxiliary do
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Stripping the layers
A little learning a dangerous thing
Robert Dodsley and the Genesis of Lowth's
On the basis of an analysis of the correspondence of the 18h-century London bookseller Robert Dodsley (1703-1764), a proposal is offered concerning the origin of Robert Lowth's (1710-1787) Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762). The author presents arguments which suggest that Lowth's grammar was not his own idea but that of Dodsley, who also invoked the assistance of another author whose work he published, William Melmoth (1710-1799). If t…
Robert Lowth and the strong verb system
James Merrick (1720-1769)
At the end of the preface to hisShort Introduction to English Grammar(1762) Robert Lowth (1710-1787) makes an appeal for comments on his work. This article analyses his correspondence with James Merrick (1720-1769), a friend and fellow scholar, written between December 1761 and October 1764, in which he receives such comments. The discussion is an illustration of the current debate at the time as to whether Custom or Propriety should be invoked i…
The usage guide
The most proscriptive eighteenth-century grammar of English, according to Sundby et al. (1991), is Knowles's Principles of English Grammar (1796). With 722 comments in which grammatical mistakes are criticised, Knowles heads the list which Sundby et al. compiled for their Dictionary of Normative Grammar . The copy of Knowles's grammar which Sundby et al. analysed was the fourth edition; the grammar had first come out in 1785 in Liverpool, and it …
Zero tolerance of prescriptivism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Towards a Standard English
An Introduction to English Sociolinguistics
An Introduction to English Sociolinguistics GRAEME TROUSDALE Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2010 xiii + 152 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7486-2325-9, £15.99 This slim volume is part of a series of Edin
My imperfect attempt towards an English Grammar
This article provides an analysis of the only evidence that has - to the author's knowledge - come down to us of the correspondence between the most authoritative 18th-century English grammarian Robert Lowth (1710-1787) and James Harris (1709-1780), author of the philosophical grammar Hermes (1751). The two extant letters uniquely provide insight into Lowth's views on the pedagogical function of his grammar, on the innovatory aspect of his critic…
Robert Lowth as a Codifier of the English Language
Preview this article: Robert Lowth as a Codifier of the English Language: An introduction, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/hl.39.1.01tie-1.gif
Studying attitudes to English usage
Attitudes to English Usage is the title of a book published in 1970 by W. H. Mittins, Mary Salu, Mary Edminson and Sheila Coyne from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne that reported on an enquiry held among some 450 informants concerning the acceptability of 55 usage items. These items had been selected because they were at the time ‘subject to variation in practice and dispute in theory’ (Mittins et al., 1970: 4), and they include sentences l…
Have went
The previous issue of English Today announced the start of a regular feature on questions of English usage and other relevant issues that are being studied in the research project ‘Bridging the Unbridgeable: Linguists, Prescriptivists and the General Public’ that is being carried out at the University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics. The first question we would like to have feedback on from readers of English Today relates to the acceptability o…
To My Dearest Sister Cassandra”
Short though it is, Jane Austen's Will contains all the elements of a traditional Will. Only the names of witnesses are missing, which would have made it invalid. Drawing on Ulrich Bach's study of Wills from the Early Modern English period, this article analyses the structure of Jane Austen's Will as well as its formulaic language, focusing on features like spelling, punctuation, grammar and lexis. Studying the probate copy of the Will, which inc…
Jane Austen’s Letters (Fourth Edition)
Notes1Baker, 123.2Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Search, 203.3See Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Search, 6.4Tieken-Boon van Ostade, “To my dearest,” 331–2
Flat adverbs
In February 2015, Catherine Bennett published a piece called “Modern Tribes: the grammar pedant” in The Guardian Online . The article focused on so-called usage problems – instances of divided usage concerning grammar, vocabulary or spelling that many people have strong opinions about. (The previous sentence is a good example of such a usage problem: can you indeed end a sentence with a preposition, for instance?) The article itself was not very …
Prescriptivism in a Comparative Perspective
Prescriptivism in English literature
One of the things we discovered in the course of the Bridging the Unbridgeable project is that usage guides are predominantly produced by non-specialists. There are linguists, too, who wrote usage guides – David Crystal, for instance, Pam Peters and most recently Stephen Pinker – but authors are very often journalists and novelists. Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), whose The King's English was published posthumously in 1997, is a good example, and so i…
Prescription and Tradition in Language
This book crystallises key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, contextualising case studies across languages and cultures. It breaks new ground with its multilingual approach, helping to balance the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism.
Analysing the huge mailbag
Just after the start of the research project Bridging the Unbridgeable: Linguists, Prescriptivists and the General Public in 2011, we laid our hands on a file called ‘Reactions to L. Trap’. The file contains well over 200 documents: letters, picture postcards, notes, newspaper clippings, and various other items, almost all of them relating to the reception of a pamphlet called The Language Trap , written by John Honey (1933–2001) and published in…
Of greengrocers, sports commentators, estate agents and television presenters
Weiner (Citation1988. “On Editing a Usage Guide.” In Words for Robert Burchfield’s Sixty-Fifth Birthday, edited by E. G. Stanley, and T. F. Hoad, 171–183. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 173) describes usage guides as being ‘as broad as the English language, covering spelling, punctuation, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis, and involving sociolinguistic considerations’. This paper focusses on these ‘sociolinguistic considerations’, to try and answ…
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