A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG)

A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG)
Author: Bertil Sundby
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 498
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027277680

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.

Linguistic Change and the Great Vowel Shift in English

Linguistic Change and the Great Vowel Shift in English
Author: Patricia M. Wolfe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2023-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520315847

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

English Grammatical Categories

English Grammatical Categories
Author: Ian Michael
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2010-06-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521143264

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.

Modern Language Notes

Modern Language Notes
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 570
Release: 1924
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.

Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985

Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985
Author: Roger Eaton
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 361
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027279772

These papers are a selection from papers presented at the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Amsterdam, 1985). Most studies deal with some aspect of an earlier stage of English, though present day varieties of English are also under investigation. Many of the papers show that there is a growing interest in the question why a certain change has taken place. Furthermore, the volume contains a considerable number of papers on historical syntax.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1322
Release: 1974-08-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521200042

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.