21.3255, Books: Syntax: Michael

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Date: 11-Aug-2010
From: Daniel Davies < ddavies at cambridge.org >
Subject: English Grammatical Categories: Michael

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Title: English Grammatical Categories 
Subtitle: and the Tradition to 1800 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521143264 

Author: Ian Michael

Hardback: ISBN:  9780521076340 Pages: 640 Price: U.K. £ 32.50 Comment: published in 1970; no longer available
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521143264 Pages: 640 Price: U.K. £ 27.99

Abstract:

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New Edition

First published in 1970, this book examines the traditional grammar, very 
briefly for its Greek and Latin origins, and fully during its first two hundred 
years as 'English' grammar. It asks when the application of Latin grammar to 
English was made; how far it was made knowingly; whether anyone protested 
that English needed a a grammar of its own. The two hundred and seventy-
two English grammars known up to 1800 are studied. Dr Michael shows that 
the old grammatical tradition is much less unanimous and authoritative than 
is often supposed, and describes a previously unknown movement to reform 
English grammar and make it more suited to English, which was expressed in 
about forty grammars during the first half of the eighteenth century. The book 
also provides much evidence about the relation between logic and language, 
especially in making definitions, and about methods of teaching during the 
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 

Contents

Preface; 
Introduction; 
Part I. The Tradition: 
1. The sources; 
2. Grammar, divisions of grammar and parts of discourse; 
3. Parts of speech; 
4. Classification within the parts of speech; 
5. Accidents; 
6. Syntax; 
Part II. The English Categories: 
7. The terms 'grammar'; 
8. Systems of parts of speech; 
9. Noun, substantive and adjective; 
10. The pronoun; 
11. The article; 
12. The verb; 
13. Tense; 
14. Mood, conjugation, irregularity; 
15. Other parts of speech; 
16. Syntactical categories; 
17. Protest and acceptance; 
Appendices. 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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