Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG).
Title:
Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG).
Author:
Sundby, Bertil.
ISBN:
9789027277688
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (496 pages)
Series:
Studies in the History of the Language Sciences ; v.63
Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
Contents:
A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH NORMATIVE GRAMMAR 1700-1800 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- I. Background -- II. The eighteenth-century grammar book -- 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 -- V. Overall structure -- VI. Error categories -- AMBIGUITY -- COLLOCATION -- CONCORD -- CONTRACTION -- COOCCURRENCE -- DIFFERENTIATION -- ELLIPSIS -- GOVERNMENT -- INFLECTION -- PHRASEOLOGY -- REDUNDANCY -- SEQUENCE -- TAUTOLOGY -- TRANSPOSITION -- VII. Sources quoted by the grammarians -- 1. Problems of identification -- 2. Alphabetical list -- 3. Frequency list -- VIII. Labels -- 1. Attitudes to correctness and the Dictionary -- 2. Index -- IX. Guide to the use of the Dictionary -- 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 -- XI. List of error categories and main entries -- THE DICTIONARY -- AMBIGUITY -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Ambiguity defined -- 2. Ambiguity as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. ANAPHORA -- 2. COMPLEMENTATION vs. SUBORDINATION -- 3. COORDINATION -- 4. FUNCTION -- 5. MODIFICATION -- 6. SCOPE -- 7. SUBORDINATION -- COLLOCATION -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Collocation defined -- 2. Collocation as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. ADJ PREP -- 2. ADJ N PREP -- 3. ADV PREP -- 4. N PREP -- 5. NPindef PREP -- 6. PREP C -- 7. V PCLE -- 8. V PREP -- 9. V C PREP -- CONCORD -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Concord defined.
2. Concord as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. ANT PRONcentral -- 2. ANT PRONdem -- 3. ANT PRONindef -- 4. ANT PRONreciprocal -- 5. ANT PRONrel -- 6. NP -- 7. O Co -- 8. PREP C -- 9. PRONcataphoric NPcoref -- 10. S Cs -- 11. S Cprep/O -- 12. S V -- 13. Snotional~V -- CONTRACTION -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Contraction defined -- 2. Contraction as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. N be -- 2. OP not -- 3. PREP it -- 4. PREP the -- 5. PRON~OP -- 6. PRON~OP~no -- 7. that other -- COOCCURRENCE -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Cooccurrence defined -- 2. Cooccurrence as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. ADJCLsub -- 2. ADJcomp/sup of/than -- 3. ADV PRONdem -- 4. ADVcomp/sup of/than -- 5. ANT ADVrel -- 6. ANT PRONrel -- 7. ARTADJ -- 8. ARTindef ADJ -- 9. ARTindef N -- 10. ARTindef one -- 11. AUX V -- 12. CONJcor -- 13. CONJcpd -- 14. DET H -- 15. MOD H -- 16. PREP C -- 17. S AUX -- 18. S V -- 19. V ADV -- 20. V CLsub -- 21. V O -- DIFFERENTIATION -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Differentiation defined -- 2. Differentiation as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. ADJ:ADV -- 2. ADJ:N -- 3. ADJ:PREP -- 4. ADJ:PREPP -- 5. ADJ:V -- 6. ADV:ADV -- 7. ADV:CONJ -- 8. ADV:N -- 9. ADV:PREP -- 10. ADV:PREPP -- 11. ADV:PRON -- 12. ART:ART -- 13. ART:NUM -- 14. AUX:AUX -- 15. AUX:PRON -- 16. AUX:V -- 17. CL:CL -- 18. CONJ:CONJ -- 19. CONJ:PREP -- 20. CONJ:PRON -- 21. N:PREPP -- 22. N:PRON -- 23. N:V -- 24. NUM:PRON -- 25. PREP:PREP -- 26. PREPP:PRON -- 27. PRON:PRON -- 28. TENSE -- 29. V:V -- 30. Vacf:Vpass -- 31.Ved:Ven -- 32. Ven:Ving -- 33. Vimpers:Vpers -- 34.Vinf.act:Vinf.pass -- 35. Vnprog:Vprog -- 36. Vpass:Vpass -- ELLIPSIS -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Ellipsis defined -- 2. Ellipsis as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. ADJ -- 2. ADV.
3. CLadv -- 4. CLcomp -- 5. CLimp -- 6. CLmain -- 7. CLrel -- 8. CONJ -- 9. COORDINATION -- 10. (DET) Ving (of) Cprep/O -- 11. NP -- 12. PREPP -- 13. SENTcplx -- 14. V C -- 15. Vpass C -- 16. VP -- GOVERNMENT -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Government defined -- 2. Government as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. CL V -- 2. CONJ V -- 3. INTERJ PRON -- 4. NP -- 5. O Co -- 6. PREP~C -- 7. PREPconj C -- 8. S Cs -- 9. [S] Cs -- 10. S~V -- 11. S [V] -- 12. S Vnfin -- 13. Snotional~V -- 14. V~O -- 15. [V] O -- INFLECTION -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Inflection defined -- 2. Inflection as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. ADJ -- 2. ADV -- 3. AUX -- 4. N -- 5. NUM -- 6. PRON -- 7. V -- PHRASEOLOGY -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. What is an idiom? -- 2. Phraseology as an error category -- DICTIONARY DATA -- REDUNDANCY -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Redundancy defined -- 2. Redundancy as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. ADJcomp/sup -- 2. ADJ C -- 3. ADVcomp/sup -- 4. CLadv -- 5. CLcomp -- 6. CLimp -- 7. CLmain -- 8. CLrel -- 9. CONJ -- 10. COORDINATION -- 11. (DET) Ving (of) Cprep/O -- 12. FRONTING -- 13. NEGATION -- 14. NP -- 15. PREPP -- 16. REINFORCEMENT -- 17. SENTcleft -- 18. SENTexistential -- 19. SENTpseudo-cleft -- 20. V C -- 21. Vpass C -- 22. VP -- SEQUENCE -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Sequence defined -- 2. Sequence as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. ADJ~ADJ -- 2. ADJ~N -- 3. ADV~PREPP -- 4. be+Cs~V -- 5. CL~NP -- 6. NP~NP -- 7. Oi~PREPP -- 8. PREP~PREP -- 9. PREP~V -- 10. PRON~PRON -- 11. S~S -- 12. V~V -- 13. V V -- TAUTOLOGY -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Tautology defined -- 2. Tautology as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. ADJ=ADJ -- 2. ADJ=N -- 3. ADJ=PRON -- 4. ADJ=V -- 5. ADV=ADV -- 6. ADV=PRON -- 7. N=ADJ -- 8. N=ADJ+N.
9. N=N -- 10. N=V -- 11. V=ADJ -- 12. V=N -- 13. V=V -- 14. V=V+ADJ -- 15. MISCELLANEOUS -- TRANSPOSITION -- INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Transposition defined -- 2. Transposition as an error category -- LIST OF MAIN ENTRIES -- DICTIONARY DATA -- 1. ADVERBIAL PLACEMENT -- 2. DEFERMENT -- 3. EXTRAPOSITION -- 4. RESHUFFLE -- 5. REVERSAL -- 6. SPLIT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- I. Primary sources -- 1. Alphabetical-chronological list -- 2. Frequency lists -- II. Other early sources -- 1. Alphabetical list -- 2. Frequency list -- III. Modern works consulted -- INDEX.
Abstract:
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.
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