LEADER 05583nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910454063203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-19471-2 010 $a9786612194719 010 $a3-11-019918-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110199185 035 $a(CKB)1000000000691478 035 $a(EBL)364680 035 $a(OCoLC)476197073 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164976 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153137 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164976 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10148024 035 $a(PQKB)11167671 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC364680 035 $a(DE-B1597)34877 035 $a(OCoLC)1013967097 035 $a(OCoLC)1037980201 035 $a(OCoLC)1041991621 035 $a(OCoLC)1046607514 035 $a(OCoLC)1047006565 035 $a(OCoLC)1049631758 035 $a(OCoLC)1054867157 035 $a(OCoLC)703226787 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110199185 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL364680 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10256431 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL219471 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000691478 100 $a20080428d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGrammars, grammarians, and grammar-writing in eighteenth-century England$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (372 p.) 225 1 $aTopics in English linguistics ;$v59 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-019627-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tTable of contents --$tGrammars, grammarians and grammar writing: An introduction --$tPart 1. Background --$tBackground: Introduction --$tThe eighteenth-century grammarians as language experts --$tGrammar writers in eighteenth-century Britain: A community of practice or a discourse community? --$tEighteenth-century grammars and book catalogues --$tPart 2. Reception and the market for grammars --$tReception and the market for grammars: Introduction --$tBellum Grammaticale (1712) ... A battle of books and a battle for the market --$tThe 1760's: Grammars, grammarians and the booksellers --$tMid-century grammars and their reception in the Monthly Review and the Critical Review --$tPart 3. The grammarians --$tThe grammarians: Introduction --$tAnn Fisher's A New Grammar, or was it Daniel Fisher s work? --$tJoseph Priestley's two Rudiments of English Grammar: 1761 and 1768 --$tEighteenth-century teacher-grammarians and the education of "proper" women --$t"Borrowing a few passages": Lady Ellenor Fenn and her use of sources --$tPart 4. The grammars --$tThe grammars: Introduction --$tPreposition stranding in the eighteenth century: Something to talk about --$tFoolish, foolisher, foolishest: Eighteenth-century English grammars and the comparison of adjectives and adverbs --$tOn normative grammarians and the double marking of degree --$tBack matter 330 $aThe book offers insight into the publication history of eighteenth-century English grammars in unprecedented detail. It is based on a close analysis of various types of relevant information: Alston's bibliography of 1965, showing that this source needs to be revised urgently; the recently published online database Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) with respect to sources of information never previously explored or analysed (such as book catalogues and library catalogues); Carol Percy's database on the reception of eighteenth-century grammars in contemporary periodical reviews; and so-called precept corpora containing data on the treatment in a large variety of grammars (and other works) of individual grammatical constructions. By focusing on individual grammars and their history a number of long-standing questions are solved with respect to the authorship of particular grammars and related work (the Brightland/Gildon grammar and the Bellum Grammaticale; Ann Fisher's grammar) while new questions are identified, such as the significant change of approach between the publication of one grammar and its second edition of seven years later (Priestley), and the dependence of later practical grammars (for mothers and their children) on earlier publications. The contributions present a view of the grammarians as individuals with (or without) specific qualifications for undertaking what they did, with their own ideas on teaching methodology, and as writers ultimately engaged in the common aim presenting practical grammars of English to the general public. Interestingly - and importantly - this collection of articles demonstrates the potential of ECCO as a resource for further research in the field. 410 0$aTopics in English linguistics ;$v59. 606 $aEnglish language$xGrammar$xHistory 606 $aGrammarians$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aEnglish language$vTextbooks$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aEnglish language$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish language$xGrammar$xHistory. 615 0$aGrammarians 615 0$aEnglish language$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish language$xHistory. 676 $a428.2 701 $aTieken-Boon van Ostade$b Ingrid$0170876 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454063203321 996 $aGrammars, grammarians, and grammar-writing in eighteenth-century England$92474628 997 $aUNINA