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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
English Grammar: Or, an Essay Towards Speaking and Writing the English Language Grammatically, and Inditing Elegantly
Author: A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar, 1700-1800
Author: Bertil SundbyPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027245509
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 497
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.
The British Grammar, Or, An Essay in Four Parts, Towards Speaking and Writing the English Language Grammatically and Inditing Elegantly
Author: James BuchananPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Syntax, Style and Grammatical Norms
Author: Christiane Dalton-PufferPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039111817
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"A selection of papers from the 13th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), which took place from 24-28 August 2004 at the University of Vienna"--P. [7].
The Teaching of English
Author: Ian MichaelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521241960
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Not only academic educationalists interested in the history of the curriculum, but teachers - from primary schools to University, will find this book of compelling interest.
The British Grammar: or, an Essay, in four parts, towards speaking and writing the English language grammatically, and inditing elegantly, etc. By James Buchanan
Author: Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English
Author: Nuria Yáñez-BouzaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107000793
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.
English Historical Linguistics 2008
Author: Ursula LenkerPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027287791
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The fourteen studies selected for this volume – all of them peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 2008 (23–30 August) at the University of Munich – investigate syntactic variation and change in the history of English from two perspectives that are crucial to explaining language change, namely the analysis of usage patterns and the social motivations of language change. Documenting the way syntactic elements have changed their combinatory preferences in fine-grained corpus studies renders the opportunity to catch language change in actu. A majority of studies in this book investigate syntactic change in the history of English from this viewpoint using a corpus-based approach, focusing on verbal constructions, modality and developments in the English noun phrase. The book is of primary interest to linguists interested in current research in the history of English syntax. Its empirical richness is an excellent source for teaching English Historical Syntax. Volume II to be announced soon.
English Historical Linguistics 2008: The history of English verbal and nominal constructions
Author: Ursula LenkerPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902724832X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The fourteen studies selected for this volume all of them peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 2008 (23 30 August) at the University of Munich investigate syntactic variation and change in the history of English from two perspectives that are crucial to explaining language change, namely the analysis of usage patterns and the social motivations of language change. Documenting the way syntactic elements have changed their combinatory preferences in fine-grained corpus studies renders the opportunity to catch language change "in actu." A majority of studies in this book investigate syntactic change in the history of English from this viewpoint using a corpus-based approach, focusing on verbal constructions, modality and developments in the English noun phrase.The book is of primary interest to linguists interested in current research in the history of English syntax. Its empirical richness is an excellent source for teaching English Historical Syntax.Volume II to be announced soon."
The Theory of English Lexicography, 1530-1791
Author: Tetsuro HayashiPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027209596
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This book serves as a welcome addition to the better known "English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755," by Starnes & Noyes (new edition published by Benjamins 1991). Whereas Starnes & Noyes describe the history of English lexicography as an evolutionary progress-by-accumulation process, Professor Hayashi focuses on issues of method and theory, starting with John Palsgrave's "Lesclarissement de la langue francoyse" (1530), to John Walker's "A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language" (1791). This book also includes a detailed discussion of Dr. Johnson's influential "Dictionary of the English Language" (1755).