Wim van der Wurff Editor & Author

The Editors: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade holds a Chair in English Sociohistorical Linguistics at the University of Leiden. Her research interests include historical social network analysis and the English standardisation process, in particular codification and prescription. She is editor of the internet journal Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics, and is the director of the VICI research project ‘The Codifiers and the English Language’. She is currently writing a book on Robert Lowth and the rise of prescriptivism that is expected to appear in 2010.
Wim van der Wurff is senior lecturer in English language and linguistics at Newcastle University (UK). His research interests include English historical syntax, mechanisms of linguistic change, the syntax and semantics of imperative clauses, and Bengali linguistics.