Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars / / Ute Dons.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
• VerfasserIn: Dons, Ute,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 47
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

The book deals with the development of descriptive models of English grammar writing during the Early Modern English period. For the first time, morphology and syntax as presented in Early Modern English grammars are systematically investigated as a whole. The statements of the contemporary grammarians are compared to hypotheses made in modern descriptions of Early Modern English and, where necessary, checked against the Early Modern English part of the Helsinki Corpus. Thus, a comprehensive overview of the characteristic features of Early Modern English is complemented by conclusions about the descriptive adequacy of Early Modern English grammars. It becomes evident that comments by contemporary authors occasionally reflect the corpus data more adequately than the statements found in modern secondary literature. This book is useful for (advanced) university students, as well as for scholars of English and grammarians in general.

Table of Contents

i-iv -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The parts of speech -- Chapter 3. The sentence -- Chapter 4. Results and outlook -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index -- 305-308