Author: William LenniePublisher: Toontoc [i.e. Toronto?] : J. Lovell
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Principles of English Grammar : Comprising the Substance of All the Most Approved English Grammars Extant, Briefly Defined, and Neatly Arranged : with Copious Exercises in Parsing and Syntax
Author: William LenniePublisher: Toontoc [i.e. Toronto?] : J. Lovell
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Principles of English Grammar, Comprising the Substance of All the Most Approved Englisch Grammars Extant, Briefly Defined, and Neathy Arranged
Author: William LennieThe Principles of English Grammar
Author: William LenniePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Language Between Description and Prescription
Author: Lieselotte AnderwaldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190270683
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Language Between Description and Prescription is an empirical, quantitative and qualitative study of nineteenth-century English grammar writing, and of nineteenth-century language change. Based on 258 grammar books from Britain and North America, the book investigates whether grammar writers of the time noticed the language changing around them, and how they reacted. In particular, Lieselotte Anderwald demonstrates that not all features undergoing change were noticed in the first place, those that were noticed were not necessarily criticized, and some recessive features were not upheld as correct. The features investigated come from the verb phrase and include in particular variable past tense forms, which -although noticed-often went uncommented, and where variation was acknowledged; the decline of the be-perfect, where the older form (the be-perfect) was criticized emphatically, and corrected; the rise of the progressive, which was embraced enthusiastically, and which was even upheld as a symbol of national superiority, at least in Britain; the rise of the progressive passive, which was one of the most violently hated constructions of the time, and the rise of the get-passive, which was only rarely commented on, and even more rarely in negative terms. Throughout the book, nineteenth-century grammarians are given a voice, and the discussions in grammar books of the time are portrayed. The book's quantitative approach makes it possible to examine majority and minority positions in the discourse community of nineteenth-century grammar writers, and the changes in accepted opinion over time. The terms of the debate are also investigated, and linked to the wider cultural climate of the time. Although grammar writing in the nineteenth century was very openly prescriptivist, the studies in this book show that many prescriptive dicta contained interesting grains of descriptive detail, and that eventually prescriptivism had only a small-scale, short-term effect on the actual language used.
The Principles of English Grammar ... The Nineteenth Edition
Author: William LENNIEThe Principles of English Grammar ... The Third Edition, with Improvements and Additions
Author: William LennieA Historical Study of the Concept of Case in English Grammar ...
Author: Wallace Joseph VickersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
English Adjective Comparison
Author: Victorina González-DíazPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902724815X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The present work contributes to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a number of aspects in the evolution of adjective comparison that have so far either been considered controversial or not been ccounted for at all. As will be shown, the diachronic aspects analysed will also have synchronic implications. Furthermore, unlike previous synchronic as well as diachronic accounts of adjective comparison, this monograph does not concentrate on the 'standard' comparative strategies (i.e. inflectional and periphrastic forms) only, but also deals with double periphrastic comparatives, thus providing an analysis of the whole range of comparative structures in English.
British Textbook and School Apparatus Catalogs
Author: South Kensington MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Bound set of catalogs of textbooks and educational apparatus published in London, England.
'Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed'
Author: Javier Pérez-GuerraPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039107889
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This volume includes a selection of fifteen papers delivered at the Second International Conference on Late Modern English. The chapters focus on significant linguistic aspects of the Late Modern English period, not only on grammatical issues such as the development of pragmatic markers, for-to infinitive constructions, verbal subcategorisation, progressive aspect, sentential complements, double comparative forms or auxiliary/negator cliticisation but also on pronunciation, dialectal variation and other practical aspects such as corpus compilation, which are approached from different perspectives (descriptive, cognitive, syntactic, corpus-driven).