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Grammars, grammarians, and grammar-writing in eighteenth-century England /
The book offers insight into the publication history of eighteenth-century English grammars in unprecedented detail. It is based on a close analysis of various types of relevant information: Alston's bibliography of 1965, showing that this source needs to be revised urgently; the recently publi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
Ã2008.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
59. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Grammars, grammarians and grammar writing: An
- introduction
- Part 1. Background
- Background: Introduction
- The eighteenth-century grammarians as language
- experts
- Grammar writers in eighteenth-century Britain: A
- community of practice or a discourse community?
- Eighteenth-century grammars and book
- catalogues
- Part 2. Reception and the market for
- grammars
- Reception and the market for grammars:
- Introduction
- Bellum Grammaticale (1712) ... A battle of books and
- a battle for the market
- The 1760s: Grammars, grammarians and the
- booksellers
- Mid-century grammars and their reception in the
- Monthly Review and the Critical Review
- Part 3. The grammarians
- The grammarians: Introduction
- Ann Fisher's A New Grammar, or was it Daniel Fisher
- s work?
- Joseph Priestley's two Rudiments of English
- Grammar: 1761 and 1768
- Eighteenth-century teacher-grammarians and the
- education of "proper" women
- "Borrowing a few passages": Lady Ellenor Fenn and
- her use of sources
- Part 4. The grammars
- The grammars: Introduction
- Preposition stranding in the eighteenth century:
- Something to talk about
- Foolish, foolisher, foolishest: Eighteenth-century
- English grammars and the comparison of adjectives and adverbs
- On normative grammarians and the double marking of
- degree
- Backmatter.