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Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England
von: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
De Gruyter Mouton, 2008
ISBN: 9783110199185 , 369 Seiten
Format: PDF, OL
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen
Preis: 210,00 EUR
Frontmatter
1
Table of contents
7
Grammars, grammarians and grammar writing: An introduction
11
Background: Introduction
27
The eighteenth-century grammarians as language experts
31
Grammar writers in eighteenth-century Britain: A community of practice or a discourse community?
47
Eighteenth-century grammars and book catalogues
67
Reception and the market for grammars: Introduction
89
Bellum Grammaticale (1712) – A battle of books and a battle for the market
91
The 1760s: Grammars, grammarians and the booksellers
111
Mid-century grammars and their reception in the Monthly Review and the Critical Review
135
The grammarians: Introduction
155
Ann Fisher’s A New Grammar, or was it Daniel Fisher’s work?
159
Joseph Priestley’s two Rudiments of English Grammar: 1761 and 1768
187
Eighteenth-century teacher-grammarians and the education of “proper” women
201
“Borrowing a few passages”: Lady Ellenor Fenn and her use of sources
233
The grammars: Introduction
257
Preposition stranding in the eighteenth century: Something to talk about
261
Foolish, foolisher, foolishest: Eighteenth-century English grammars and the comparison of adjectives and adverbs
289
On normative grammarians and the double marking of degree
299
Backmatter
321
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