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This book addresses fundamental issues in linguistic theory, including the relation between formal and cognitive approaches, the autonomy of syntax, and the content of universal grammar. Professor Anderson focuses on the grammar of case relations and, after a critical history of modern grammars of case, explores unresolved issues in the field, including the degree to which syntactic categories are grounded in meaning and the notion of linguistic creativity.
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This book extends the highly regarded Routledge Grammars series to include English. It will prove to be a tremendous boon to everyone who sometimes (or often) struggles with the language, from freshmen in composition 101 to graduate students looking to hone there skills.
WALS is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical)
properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference
grammars) by a team of more than 40 authors
(many of them the leading authorities
on the subject).
The Grammar of English Grammars, with an introduction historical and critical; the whole methodically
arranged and amply illustrated; with forms of correcting and of
parsing, improprieties for correction, examples for parsing, questions
for examination, exercises for writing, observations for the advanced
student, decisions and proofs for the settlement of disputed points,
occasional strictures and defences, an exhibition of the several
methods of analysis, and a key to the oral exercises: to which are
added four appendixes, pertaining separately to the four parts of
grammar.
English Grammar,
Adapted to the Different
Classes of Learners Murray.s grammar is subtitled .adapted to the different classes of leaners., and, as a result of a strict division into main text and additional linguistic information, it is a graded grammar. It would thus appear to be suitable for learners of different ages. This was one of the reasons for the grammar.s phenomenal popularity.
Murray.s grammar is to a large extent based on Lowth.s (Vorlat 1959), but it also differs in a number of respects. Furthermore, the second half of the eighteenth century saw the birth of grammars written specifically for children, for which there proved to be a real market (Navest 2005). In this paper, I will discuss the question of whether - as would appear to be the case - it was Lowth.s grammar which gave the impetus to this development or not, and what it was that made his grammar unsuitable for children. I will do so by focussing on Lowth.s methodology in codifying the English language and contrasting it with that adopted by Murray and others of the period, thereby taking into account a number of specific linguistic strictures discussed in the grammars. As these grammars were primarily aimed at the rising middle classes (Fitzmaurice1998), I will also argue that the presence of some of these linguistic strictures in the grammars can be explained by what was considered to be a real threat at the time: the possibile linguistic contamination by English nannies in the language acquisition process of young children.
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