Benjamin Franklin’s English

Since 2015, I have been working on Benjamin Franklin’s English, with the aim of exploring the linguistic features of of 18th-century American English. Benjamin Franklin’s English: Form to Function Analyses will be published soon.

Presentations

Iyeiri, Yoko. 2023. “Exceeding Welcome vs. Exceedingly Welcome: Adverbs with and without –ly in Benjamin Franklin’s English”. 12th Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN 2023), 1 June 2023, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Iyeiri, Yoko. 2021. “Exploring Benjamin Franklin’s English: A Case of Intra-Writer Variation”. ICAME 42, 18-21 August 2021, Dortmund. (Online presentation, 20 August 2021)
Iyeiri, Yoko. “Negation in Benjamin Franklin’s Writings: A Stylistic Analysis of his Autobiography and Letters”. The Fourth Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (17-20 Sepember 2018), 19 September 2018, Takamatsu, Japan.

Publications

Iyeiri, Yoko. Forthcoming. Benjamin Franklin’s English: Form to Function Analyses.
Iyeiri, Yoko. 2018. “Negation in Benjamin Franklin’s Writings: A Stylistic Analysis of his Autobiography and Letters”, in Proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2018), Takamatsu, Japan, September 17-19, ed. Yukio Tono and Hitoshi Ishihara, pp. 178-183. (Downloadable PDF) Also downloadable at http://apcla.net/Proc.zip (large)