English Traditional Grammars: An international perspective

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ENGLISH TRADITIONAL GRAMMARS Editorial page Title page Copyright page Dedication Foreword Table of contents "Why can't someone write a nice simple grammar?" REFERENCES Part I: Native Grammars of English MORE THAN ENOUGH ENGLISH GRAMMARS REFERENCES TRENDS THAT SHAPED THE DEVELOPMENT OF 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN GRAMMAR WRITING REFERENCES W.D. WHITNEY'S ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH GRAMMER. FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS (1877) NOTES REFERENCES E.A. SONNESNCHEIN AND GRAMMATICAL TERMINOLOGY Appendix NOTES REFERENCES FACTORS IN THE GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY IRELAND REFERENCES THE FOWLER BROTHERS AND THE TRADITION OE USAGE HANDBOOKS 1. The tradition of Henry Alford, Richard Grant White, and others 2. The planning of MEU 3. The relationship between TKE and MEU 4. Sources consulted by the Fowlers 5. Assessments of the value of MEU 6. Assessments of the second edition (1965) of MEU 7. Modern usage guides NOTES REFERENCES AMERICAN ENGLISH GRAMMARS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1. The nineteenth-century inheritance 2. The booboisie, the great locofoco, and the new conservatives 3. The great American grammar of G.O. Curme 4. Structuralist grammars 5. The great American grammarian: C.C. Fries 6. Usage, user-friendly grammars, and individualistic ones 7. Specialized grammars 8. The future of traditional grammar REFERENCES Part II: Non-native Grammars of English ENGLISH GRAMMAR WRITING: THE BELGIAN CONTRIBUTION 0. The tradition of writing English grammars in Belgium cannot be compared to that of The Netherlands: 1. De Vocht (1923) 2. Scheurweghs (1959) 3. Dekeyser et al. (1979) 4. Van Roey (1982) 5. In a recent article NOTES REFERENCES E. KRUISINGA 0. Introduction 1. Kruisinga's Life 2. A Handbook of Present-Day English NOTES REFERENCES ENGLISH GRAMMARS IN POSTWAR CZECHOSLOVAKIA NOTES REFERENCES GERMAN GRAMMERS OF ENGLISH PRIOR TO 1860 0. The representation of grammatical contents in English grammar books 1. The Latinate background of English grammars 2. Early German grammars of English 3. Langstedt (1796) 4. Reichel (1790) 5. Ebers (1800) 6. Pott (1807) 7. Arnold (1736/1809) 8. Van den Berg (1844) 9. Albrecht (1856/1857) 10. Conclusion REFERENCES EDUARD ADOLF MAETZNER (1805-1902) 1. The historical context of Maetzner's life and work 2. Maetzner's life and work 3. The Englische Grammatik 4. The impact of the Englische Grammatik 4.1. Positive comments on Maetzner 4.2. The decline of his influence NOTES REFERENCES KARL AND MAX DEUTSCHBEIN'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR MANUALS 1. Karl Deutschbein's presentation of English grammar 1.1 Biographical notes 1.2 Main publications 1.3 Karl Deutschbein's approach to grammar 1.3.1 The underlying grammar model 1.3.2 The teaching strategy 2. Max Deutschbein and his system of syntax 2.1 Biographical notes 2.2 Max Deutschbeins's publications 2.3 Max Deutschbein's conception of grammar 2.3.1 In search of a unifying principle 2.3.2 Max D.'s description of syntax 2.3.3 Transposition into a learner's grammar REFERENCES ADOLF LAMPRECHT'S (GERMAN)GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH 1. Lamprecht (1956) - a general assessment 2. From Lamprecht (1956) to Lamprecht (1970) 3. From Lamprecht (1970) to Lamprecht (1986) 4. Lamprecht's grammar and after REFERENCES Part III: Grammatical Analyses TRADITIONAL GRAMMARS OF ENGLISH: PACTS AND EXPLANATIONS 1. Introduction 2. The structure of the noun phrase: facts 2.1 R.W. Zandvoort; A Handbook of English Grammar (1945) 2.2 R. Quirk et al.; A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985) 2.3 R. Huddleston; Introduction to the Grammar of English (1984) 3. The structure of the noun phrase: explanations 3.1 Premodification 3.2 Postmodification 3.3 The use of anaphoric 'one' 4. Summary REFERENCES REFERENCE AND ARTICLES REFERENCES TENSE AND ASPECT IN GERMAN GRAMMARS OF ENGLISH IN THE PAST FIFTY YEARS 1.Introduction 1.1 Scope of the corpus 1.2 Bilingual and monolingual grammars 1.3 School and scholarly grammars 1.4 Periodization 2. Tense and aspect 2.1 Preliminary remarks 2.2 The verb in the older grammars 2.3 Reported speech without backshift 2.4 Conditional clauses 2.5 Co-occurrence of adverbials with the past tense/present perfect 2.6 Aspect 2.6.1 Terminology 2.6.2 Growing awareness of the progressive aspect 3. Conclusion Abbreviations REFERENCES MODALITY AND THE MODALS IN TRADITIONAL GRAMMARS OF ENGLISH REFERENCES THE RÔLE OF AMERICAN ENGLISH IN TRADITIONAL GRAMMARS OF ENGLISH NOTES REFERENCES Summary of Articles INDEX OF NAMES