Author: Robert Dodsley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522083
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
This fully annotated edition sheds much light on eighteenth-century British literary and publishing history.
The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley
Author: Robert Dodsley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522083
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
This fully annotated edition sheds much light on eighteenth-century British literary and publishing history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522083
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
This fully annotated edition sheds much light on eighteenth-century British literary and publishing history.
An Historical Syntax of the English Language
Author: Museo Di Roma
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004531386
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Frederik Theodor Visser's An Historical Syntax of the English Language, published in four massive volumes between 1963 and 1973, is certainly one of the cornerstones of research in English linguistics. Visser's achievements can hardly be overestimated. Before the advent of modern corpus linguistics, he compiled a remarkable wealth of detailed philological data from all periods of English and combined this with current grammatical analyses of his time. This has made this publications an indispensable resource for anyone investigating the history of English syntax. This reproduction of Visser's volumes is more than welcome, and timely, as the volumes have been out of print for quite some time and were sometimes a little bit difficult to navigate. Having a searchable and easy-to- use online version, although maybe not perfect, available now means a revival for scholarship that celebrates its fiftieth birthday without losing any of its relevance.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004531386
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Frederik Theodor Visser's An Historical Syntax of the English Language, published in four massive volumes between 1963 and 1973, is certainly one of the cornerstones of research in English linguistics. Visser's achievements can hardly be overestimated. Before the advent of modern corpus linguistics, he compiled a remarkable wealth of detailed philological data from all periods of English and combined this with current grammatical analyses of his time. This has made this publications an indispensable resource for anyone investigating the history of English syntax. This reproduction of Visser's volumes is more than welcome, and timely, as the volumes have been out of print for quite some time and were sometimes a little bit difficult to navigate. Having a searchable and easy-to- use online version, although maybe not perfect, available now means a revival for scholarship that celebrates its fiftieth birthday without losing any of its relevance.
A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 17001800 (DENG)
Author: Bertil Sundby
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277680
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277680
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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.
Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology
Author: Joseph Thomas
Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, 1840-1870
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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The auxiliary do in eighteenth-century English
Author: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311140482X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311140482X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Learned Societies and English Literary Scholarship in Great Britain and the United States
Author: Harrison Ross Steeves
Publisher: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Describes the historical growth of the movements toward organized literary study in the 19th century and their influences upon the scholarship of their day and our own.
Publisher: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Describes the historical growth of the movements toward organized literary study in the 19th century and their influences upon the scholarship of their day and our own.
Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110199181
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
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 published online database Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) with respect to sources of information never previously explored or analysed (such as book catalogues and library catalogues); Carol Percy's database on the reception of eighteenth-century grammars in contemporary periodical reviews; and so-called precept corpora containing data on the treatment in a large variety of grammars (and other works) of individual grammatical constructions. By focussing on individual grammars and their history a number of long-standing questions are solved with respect to the authorship of particular grammars and related work (the Brightland/Gildon grammar and the Bellum Grammaticale; Ann Fisher's grammar) while new questions are identified, such as the significant change of approach between the publication of one grammar and its second edition of seven years later (Priestley), and the dependence of later practical grammars (for mothers and their children) on earlier publications. The contributions present a view of the grammarians as individuals with (or without) specific qualifications for undertaking what they did, with their own ideas on teaching methodology, and as writers ultimately engaged in the common aim presenting practical grammars of English to the general public. Interestingly - and importantly - this collection of articles demonstrates the potential of ECCO as a resource for further research in the field.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110199181
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
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 published online database Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) with respect to sources of information never previously explored or analysed (such as book catalogues and library catalogues); Carol Percy's database on the reception of eighteenth-century grammars in contemporary periodical reviews; and so-called precept corpora containing data on the treatment in a large variety of grammars (and other works) of individual grammatical constructions. By focussing on individual grammars and their history a number of long-standing questions are solved with respect to the authorship of particular grammars and related work (the Brightland/Gildon grammar and the Bellum Grammaticale; Ann Fisher's grammar) while new questions are identified, such as the significant change of approach between the publication of one grammar and its second edition of seven years later (Priestley), and the dependence of later practical grammars (for mothers and their children) on earlier publications. The contributions present a view of the grammarians as individuals with (or without) specific qualifications for undertaking what they did, with their own ideas on teaching methodology, and as writers ultimately engaged in the common aim presenting practical grammars of English to the general public. Interestingly - and importantly - this collection of articles demonstrates the potential of ECCO as a resource for further research in the field.
University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description