Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England / / ed. by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Auer, Anita,; Bax, Randy Cliffort,; Buschmann-Göbels, Astrid,; Cajka, Karen,; Chapman, Don,; González-Díaz, Victorina,; Hodson, Jane,; Navest, Karlijn,; Percy, Carol,; Rodríguez-Gil, María,; Tieken-Boon Ostade, Ingrid,; Watts, Richard J.,; Yañez-Bouza, Nuria,
• HerausgeberIn: Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 59
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (361 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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