English traditional grammars : an international perspective /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991. |
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| Description: | x, 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, v. 62 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1267157 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Foreword
- 2. "Why can't someone write a nice simple grammar?"
- 3. Part I: Native Grammars of English
- 4. More Than Enough English Grammars
- 5. Trends That Shaped the Development of 19th Century American Grammar Writing
- 6. W.D. Whitney's Essentials of English Grammar
- 7. E.A. Sonnenschein and Grammatical Terminology
- 8. Factors in the Growth of the English Language in 18th and 19th Century Ireland
- 9. The\Fowler Brothers and the Tradition of Usage Handbooks
- 10. American English Grammars in the Twentieth Century
- 11. Part II
- 12. English Grammar Writing
- 13. E. Kruisinga
- 14. English Grammars in Postwar Czechoslovakia
- 15. German Grammars of English prior to 1860
- 16. E.A. Maetzner
- 17. Karl and Max Deutschbein's English Grammar Manuals
- 18. Adolf Lamprecht's (German) Grammar of English
- 19. Part III: Grammatical Analyses
- 20. Traditional Grammars of English
- 21. Reference and Articles
- 22. Tense and Aspect in German Grammars of English in the Past Fifty Years
- 23. Modality and the Modals in Traditional Grammars of English
- 24. The\Rôle of American English in Traditional Grammars of English
- 25. Summaries
- 26. Name index