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Robert Lowth (1710-1787): The making of his grammar and its influence
Guest-edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
[Historiographia Linguistica 39:1] 2012
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Obituary

Robert Lowth as a Codifier of the English Language

An introduction

| University of Leiden
Published online: 22 March 2012
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