Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Part 1 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Historical Sociolinguistics 1.2 Research Question 1 1.3 Research Question 2 1.4 Research Question 3 2. The Elizabeth I Corpus (QEIC) 3. Methodology 3.
1 Macro-level Corpora 3.2 Comparative Analysis 3.3 Social Factors 3.4 Interactive Factors 3.5 Stylistic Factors 3.6 Systemic Factors 3.7 Linguistic Factors Part 2: Results and Analysis 4. Affirmative Do 4.
1 Results 4.2 Social Factors 4.3 Systemic Factors 4.4 Interactive Factors 4.5 Stylistic Factors 4.6 Summary 5. Negative Do 5.1 Results 5.
2 Systemic Factors 5.3 Social Factors 5.4 Interactive Factors 5.5 Stylistic Factors 5.6 Summary 6. The Replacement of Ye by You 6.1 Results 6.2 Social Factors 6.
3 Stylistic Factors 6.4 Interactive and Systemic Factors 6.5 Summary 7. First- and Second-Person Possessive Determiners 7.1 Results 7.2 Social Factors 7.3 Stylistic Factors 7.4 Interactive Factors 7.
5 Summary 8. Multiple Negation vs. Single Negation 8.1 Results 8.2 Systemic Factors 8.3 Social Factors 8.4 Stylistic Factors 8.5 Summary 9.
Animacy and Relative Marker: who/which 9.1 Results 9.2 Systemic Factors 9.3 Social Factors 9.4 Interactive Factors 9.5 Stylistic Factors 9.6 Objective case: whom/which 9.7 Summary 10.
Which and The Which 10.1 Results 10.2 Social Factors 10.3 Systemic Factors 10.4 Stylistic Factors 10.5 Interactive Factors 10.6 Summary 11. Superlative Adjectives 11.
1 Results 11.2 Systemic Factors 11.3 Interactive Factors 11.4 Stylistic Factors 11.5 Double Forms 11.6 Results 11.7 Stylistic Factors 11.8 Summary 12.
Royal We and Other Pronouns of Self-Reference 12.1 Background 12.2 Results 12.3 Interactive Factors 12.4 Stylistic Factors 12.5 Comparison with Other Royal Idiolects 12.6 Other Pronouns of Self-Reference 12.7 Summary 13.
Spelling 13.1 Background 13.2 Methodology 13.3 Results: Spelling Consistency 13.4 Diachronic Consistency 13.5 Graph Combinations 13.6 Final 13.7 and 13.
8 Combinations 13.9 , and 13.10 and 13.11 and 13.12 and 13.13 Idiosyncrasies and Spelling Reform 13.14 Summary Part 3: Research Questions 14. Research Question 1 14.
1 The Gender Question 14.2 Summary 15. Research Question 2 15.1 Case Study 1: The Seymour Letters 15.2 Case Study 2: 1576 Parliamentary Speech 15.3 Case Study 3: The CEEC Hoby Letter 15.4 Case Study 4: 1597 Prayer 15.5 Summary 16.
Research Question 3 16.1 Idiolects and Idiosyncrasy 16.2 Adolescence and Adulthood 16.3 Linguistic Leadership 16.4 Innovators, Early Adopters and Networks 16.5 Explaining Progressiveness: Communities of Practice 16.6 Hypercorrection and Linguistic Leadership 16.7 Stylistic Variation and Historical Sociolinguistics 17.
Final Word Part 4: Appendix 18. Tabular Data 19. The Queen Elizabeth I Corpus (QEIC) 19.1 Correspondence 19.2 Speeches 19.3 Translations 19.4 Queen Elizabeth I Corpus: Text Information Textual Sources References.