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(2006), Cambridge Grammar of English: A Comprehensive Guide, Cambridge University Press. Pp. 973, ISBN 0-521-58846-4 Cobbett, William (1883) [1818], A Grammar of the English Language, In a Series of Letters: Intended for the Use of Schools and of Young Persons in General, but more especially for the use of Soldiers, Sailors, Apprentices, and ...
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CamGEL [n 1]) is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Huddleston was the only author to work on every chapter. It was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002 and has been cited more than 8,000 times. [1]
Collins COBUILD – English Grammar London: Collins ISBN 0-00-370257-X second edition, 2005 ISBN 0-00-718387-9. Huddleston and Pullman say they found this grammar 'useful' in their Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, p. 1765. A CD-Rom version of the 1st edition is available in the Collins COBUILD Resource Pack ISBN 0-00-716921-3
The Cambridge History of the English Language is a six volume history of English published between 1992 and 2001. [1] The general editor was Richard Hogg. Volume 1, The Beginnings to 1066, Richard Hogg, ed. Volume 2, 1066–1476, Norman Blake, ed. Volume 3, 1476–1776, Roger Lass, ed. Volume 4, 1776–1997, Suzanne Romaine, ed.
Although the construction the United States are was more common early in the history of the country, as the singular federal government exercised more authority and a singular national identity developed (especially following the American Civil War), it became standard to treat the United States as a singular noun. [8]
For some time, Huddleston ran a project under Halliday in the Communications Research Centre at The University of London called the “OSTI Programme in the Linguistic Properties of Scientific English.” [5] (OSTI was the UK government's Office for Scientific and Technical Information.) [6] As a student of Halliday's, Huddleston was a proponent of Systemic Functional Grammar, [5] but as his ...
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The earliest known grammar of a Western language is the second-century BCE Art of Grammar attributed to Dionysius Thrax, a grammar of Greek. Key stages in the history of English grammars include Ælfric of Eynsham's composition around 995 CE of a grammar in Old English based on a compilation of two Latin grammars, Aelius Donatus's Ars maior and ...