Author: William LOUGHTONPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A Practical Grammar of the English Tongue, etc
Author: William LOUGHTONA practical grammar of the English tongue ... Second edition, with improvements
Author: William LOUGHTONGrammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English
Author: Nuria Yáñez-BouzaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316239659
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
The preposition is of particular interest to syntacticians, historians and sociolinguists of English, as its placement within a sentence is influenced by syntactic and sociolinguistic constraints, and by how the 'rules' regarding prepositions have changed over time, as a result of language change, of change in attitudes towards language, and of processes such as standardization. This book investigates preposition placement in the early and late Modern English periods (1500–1900), with a special focus on preposition stranding (The house which I live in) in opposition to pied piping (The house in which I live). Based on a large-scale analysis of precept and usage data, this study reassesses the alleged influence of late eighteenth-century normative works on language usage. It also sheds new light on the origins of the stigmatisation of preposition stranding. This study will be of interest to scholars working on syntax and grammar, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.
English Grammatical Categories
Author: Ian MichaelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521143264
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
This book examines the traditional grammar, very briefly for its Greek and Latin origins, and fully during its first two hundred years as 'English' grammar.
Patterns of Change in 18th-century English
Author: Terttu NevalainenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027263833
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus of personal correspondence, including the auxiliary do, verbal -s and the progressive aspect, and they conclude that direct normative influence on them must have been minimal. The studies are contextualized by discussions of the normative tradition and the correspondence corpus, and of eighteenth-century English society and culture. Basing their work on a variationist sociolinguistic approach, the authors introduce the models and methods they have used to trace the progress of linguistic changes in the “long” eighteenth century, 1680–1800. Aggregate findings are balanced by analysing individuals and their varying participation in these processes. The final chapter places these results in a wider context and considers them in relation to past sociolinguistic work. One of the major findings of the studies is that in most cases the overall pace of change was slow. Factors retarding change include speaker evaluation and repurposing outgoing features, in particular, for certain styles and registers.
Catalogues of Books
Author: Jonathan EdwardsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133944
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
This final volume in The Works of Jonathan Edwards publishes for the first time Edwards’ “Catalogue,” a notebook he kept of books of interest, especially titles he hoped to acquire, and entries from his “Account Book,” a ledger in which he noted books loaned to family, parishioners, and fellow clergy. These two records, along with several shorter documents presented in the volume, illuminate Edwards’ own mental universe while also providing a remarkable window into the wider intellectual and print cultures of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. An extensive critical introduction places Edwards’ book lists in the contexts that shaped his reading agenda, and the result is the most comprehensive treatment yet of his reading and of the fascinating peculiarities of his time and place.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century
Author: John NicholsA New and Compendious Treatise of Arithmetick, in whole numbers and fractions, vulgar and decimal ... The second edition
Author: Thomas WESTON (Master of the Academy at Greenwich.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Development of English Grammatical Theory, 1586-1737
Author: Emma VorlatPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Traveller's Pocket-farrier: Or A Treatise Upon the Distempers and Common Incidents Happening to Horses on a Journey ... The Sixth Edition, with Additions, Etc
Author: Henry BrackenPublisher:
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Category : Horses
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description