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Welcome to the website of the research project The Language of the Labouring Poor in Late Modern England!

The SNSF-funded project The Language of the Labouring Poor in Late Modern English, which runs from March 2020 to February 2025, aims at determining the role of the social stratification variable in language variation and change in the period c. 1795–1834.

For more information about the project description and research questions, click here.