Ingrid Marijke Tieken-Boon van Ostade (born 1954,

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) is a professor emeritus of English Sociohistorical Linguistics at

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'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

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's ''Making History'' programme. She is the editor of the journal ''Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical linguistics'' and has presented plenary sessions at important conferences and symposiums in her field. She is currently supervising the project Bridging the Unbridgeable: linguists, prescriptivists and the general public. She became a member of the

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in 2014. On the 11th of September, Tieken-Boon van Ostade was appointed knight in the

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Selected publications

* Tieken-Boon van Ostade, I.M. (2010) ''The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism''. Oxford: OUP * Tieken-Boon van Ostade, I.M. (2009) ''An Introduction to Late Modern English''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Marsden, Sharon,(2011)" eview Ofan Introduction to Late Modern English." ''Language in Society''. 40.3 : 398-399 * Tieken-Boon van Ostade, I.M. (Ed.) (1996) ''Two hundred years of Lindley Murray''. Münster: Nodus Publikationen. * Tieken-Boon van Ostade, I.M. (1995) ''The two versions of Malory's Morte Darthur: Multiple negation and the editing of the text''. Cambridge: Brewer.

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