Benjamin Franklin’s English: Form to Function Analyses

This book delves into Benjamin Franklin’s English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation of the potentiality of English.

This book is a fantastic reference for students and scholars of historical linguistics, varieties of English, and World Englishes.

Yoko Iyeiri is Professor of English Language at Kyoto University. Her research interests are in the history of English. Her publications include Negative Constructions in Middle English (Kyushu UP, 2001) and Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English (Benjamins, 2010).