The Theory of English Lexicography 1530–1791

The Theory of English Lexicography 1530–1791
Author: Tetsuro Hayashi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027281319

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).

A Rhetorical Grammar of the English Language

A Rhetorical Grammar of the English Language
Author: D. Cruttenden
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2023-03-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382147076

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English

Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English
Author: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107000793

This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.

Studies in Early Modern English

Studies in Early Modern English
Author: Dieter Kastovsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2011-12-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311087959X

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.