Ingrid Marijke Tieken-Boon van Ostade (born 1954, The Hague) 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.University of Leiden: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeUniversity of Leiden: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
She is the editor of the journal Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical linguisticsHistorical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical linguistics and has presented plenary sessions at important conferences and symposiums in her field.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.
In the 2020s she is supervising the project Bridging the Unbridgeable: linguists, prescriptivists and the general public.Bridging the Unbridedgeable
She became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.
On the 11th of September 2020, Tieken-Boon van Ostade was appointed knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
Selected publications Tieken-Boon van Ostade, I.M. (2010) The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism. Oxford: OUPRutten, T. (2012) "Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade : the Bishop's Grammar. Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism." Linguistische Berichte. 237-240.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.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. Tieken-Boon van Ostade, I.M. (2009) An Introduction to Late Modern English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Haddon, J. (2011) "An Introduction to Late Modern English, by Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade." The Use of English. 62.3 275-278.Smitterberg, Erik. (2011) "Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade, an Introduction to Late Modern English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Pp. X + 166. ." English Language and Linguistics. 15.1 173-183Marsden, Sharon,(2011)"[review Of] an 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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