Author: Ellin DEVISPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Accidence; Or First Rudiments of English Grammar. Designed for the Use of Young Ladies ... The Third Edition, with Very Considerable Additions
Author: Ellin DEVISThe Accidence; Or, First Rudiments of English Grammar ...
Author: Ellin DevisThe Accidence
Author: Ellin DevisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 17001800 (DENG)
Author: Bertil SundbyPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277680
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic account of such 'errors'. Apart from source and page references, the Dictionary gives the context of the error (I have not wept this forty years), the correct or 'target' form ('these forty years'), the name of the authors quoted by the grammarians ('Addison', 'Swift'), and the labels which sum up their assessment of the error ('absurd', 'solecism'). It operates with error categories such as ambiguity, ellipsis and government (fourteen in all), which are subdivided into grammatically described main entries, subentries, and so on. The Introduction includes a guide to the use of the Dictionary, the grammatical code, and a discussion of grammatical concepts, error typologies, problems of identifying literary sources, attitudes to correctness, grammatical figures, and other topics. A Bibliography and an Index of lexical items and technical terms round off the volume. The way the Dictionary is organized should make it possible to find in it the answer to a wide variety of questions pertaining to grammar, style and linguistic historiography.
An Historical Syntax of the English Language
Author: Fredericus Theodorus VisserPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004071421
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The aim of this study is to provide an outline of the development, from the earliest times to the present day, of all the English syntatical constructions with a verbal form as their nucleus. Professor Visser's description is based on a very extensive collection of documentary material covering every kind of writing in prose and poetry in the Old, Middle and Modern periods, drawing on quotations illustrating syntactical phenomena in Bosworth & Toller, O.E.D., M.M.E.D., E.D.D., and D.O.S.T., but also making reference to obsolete usages not found in any grammar, and to the views of English and American grammarians of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries on the various syntactical constructions. The volumes of this work originally appeared in the early sixties and seventies and were well received by readers and reviewers. Volumes 1 and 2 underwent correction in the light of these early reactions. We should like to think that this work will continue to be available to the scholarly world without great increases in the price. We are however only reprinting the individual volumes in small numbers, and so we have decided that in order to guarantee a consistent reprint and pricing policy for the future, the work should be available henceforth only as a set of four volumes.
The critical review, or annals of literature
Author: Instructive Extracts: comprising religious and moral instruction; natural history; elementary science ... With a selection of passages from the British poets ... by the author of the Edinburgh Sessional School Books. Fourth edition
Author: EXTRACTS.An Historical Syntax of the English Language
Author: Frederik Theodor VisserPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
History of Rome
Author: Oliver GoldsmithThe Natural History of the Ordinary Cetacea Or Whales
Author: Sir William JardinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cetacea
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description