A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG)

Bertil Sundby

Anne Kari Bjørge

Kari E. Haugland

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Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic account of such 'errors'. Apart from source and page references, the Dictionary gives the context of the error (I have not wept this forty years), the correct or 'target' form ('these forty years'), the name of the authors quoted by the grammarians ('Addison', 'Swift'), and the labels which sum up their assessment of the error ('absurd', 'solecism'). It operates with error categories such as ambiguity, ellipsis and government (fourteen in all), which are subdivided into grammatically described main entries, subentries, and so on. The Introduction includes a guide to the use of the Dictionary, the grammatical code, and a discussion of grammatical concepts, error typologies, problems of identifying literary sources, attitudes to correctness, grammatical figures, and other topics. A Bibliography and an Index of lexical items and technical terms round off the volume. The way the Dictionary is organized should make it possible to find in it the answer to a wide variety of questions pertaining to grammar, style and linguistic historiography.

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 63] 1991. x, 486 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.63

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Background | p. 1

II. The eighteenth-century grammar book | p. 4

1. Introduction
2. Parts of speech
3. Syntax
4. Exercises
5. Grammatical figures
6. Authorship
III. Principles of delimitation and selection
1. Grammar delimited
2. Sources
3. Citations

IV. Error typologies | p. 16

V. Overall structure | p. 18

VI. Error categories | p. 19

VII. Sources quoted by the grammarians | p. 25

1. Problems of identification
2. Alphabetical list
3. Frequency list

VIII. Labels | p. 38

1. Attitudes to correctness and the Dictionary
2. Index

IX. Guide to the use of the Dictionary | p. 53

1. Introduction
2. Error tokens
3. Source references
4. Page references
5. Citations
6. Source forms
7. Target forms
8. Entry headings
9. Alphabetical lists
10. Labels
11. Entry notes

X. Grammatical code | p. 60

XI. List of error categories and main entries | p. 65

The Dictionary

Ambiguity | p. 71

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

Collocation | p. 82

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

Concord | p. 102

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

Contraction | p. 159

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

Cooccurrence | p. 166

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

Differentiation | p. 196

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

Ellipsis | p. 241

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

Government | p. 264

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

Inflection | p. 283

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

Phraseology | p. 314

Introductory
Dictionary data

Redundancy | p. 347

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

Sequence | p. 380

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

Tautology | p. 402

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

Transposition | p. 414

Introductory
List of main entries
Dictionary data

I. Primary sources | p. 439

1. Alphabetical-chronological list | p. 439

2. Frequency lists | p. 453

II. Other early sources | p. 458

1. Alphabetical list | p. 458

2. Frequency list | p. 459

III. Modern works consulted | p. 459

Index | p. 463

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