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Robert Lowth: A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes. [36] 1763. John Ash: Grammatical institutes: or, An easy introduction to Dr. Lowth's English grammar. [37] 1765. William Ward: An Essay on English Grammar. [38] 1766. Samuel Johnson: A dictionary of the English Language...: to which is prefixed, a Grammar of the English ...
His research on Trique was the first documented case of a language with five distinct levels of tone. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Arlington , where he taught Linguistics for over 20 years (1972-1993), mostly on topics related to his approach to discourse analysis.
In 1942 or 1943, Warriner was approached by a publisher's sales representative about revising a grammar book dating from 1898. Warriner instead began writing chapters for a new book, which was published by Harcourt Brace as Warriner's Handbook of English, aimed at grades 9 and 10. This book was followed by a volume aimed at 11th and 12th graders.
Donatus' Ars Minor was the first printed book by Johannes Gutenberg. [4] 1471 Ancient Greek: Manuel Chrysoloras: Chrysoloras' Erotemata was the first printed book in greek language. [5] 1489 Hebrew: Moses Kimhi [6] 1492 Spanish: Antonio de Nebrija: Nebrija's Gramática de la lengua castellana is the first printed grammar of a vernacular ...
His first book was Power of Religion on the Mind (1787). In 1795, he issued his Grammar of the English Language. This was followed by English Exercises, and the English Reader. These books passed through several editions, and the Grammar was the standard textbook for fifty years throughout England and America. [1]
The Book of the English Language (1877); The Golden Primer, parts I and II (1884; 1885) with illustrations by Walter Crane. Meiklejohn, J.M.D. (1886). The English Language: its Grammar, History, and Literature. London and Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. OCLC 906324620 (all editions).
William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language. [1] Its characters were presented in the black-letter or "gothic" writing style commonly used at the time and also in Roman type.
A Modern English grammar on historical principles is a seven-volume grammar of English written by Otto Jespersen. The first volume ("part"), Sounds and Spellings, was published in 1909; two through five were on syntax; six was on morphology; and seven returned to the topic of syntax. It took until 1949 for all seven to be completed.