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English Traditional Grammars: An international perspective
Edited by Gerhard Leitner
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 62] 1991
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Forewordvii
“Why can’t someone write a nice simple grammar?”1
Part I: Native Grammars of English
More Than Enough English Grammars11
Trends That Shaped the Development of 19th Century American Grammar Writing27
W.D. Whitney's Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools (1877)39
E.A. Sonnenschein and Grammatical Terminology57
Factors in the Growth of the English Language in 18th and 19th Century Ireland81
The Fowler Brothers and the Tradition of Usage Handbooks93
American English Grammars in the Twentieth Century113
Part II: Non-native Grammars of English
English Grammar Writing: The Belgian Contribution141
E. Kruisinga153
English Grammars in Postwar Czechoslovakia175
German Grammars of English prior to 1860205
E.A. Maetzner233
Karl and Max Deutschbein's English Grammar Manuals257
Adolf Lamprecht's (German) Grammar of English277
Part III: Grammatical Analyses
Traditional Grammars of English: Facts and Explanations293
Reference and Articles309
Tense and Aspect in German Grammars of English in the Past Fifty Years329
Modality and the Modals in Traditional Grammars of English349
The Rôle of American English in Traditional Grammars of English369
Summaries381
Name index387


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