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  2. Joseph Wright (linguist) - Wikipedia

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    His book A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill was "the first truly scientific monograph on an English dialect." [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Wright's greatest achievement is considered to be the editing of the six-volume English Dialect Dictionary , which he published between 1898 and 1905, partly at his own expense.

  3. History of English grammars - Wikipedia

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    Lindley Murray: English grammar: adapted to the different classes of learners. [43] 1799. Jane Gardiner: Young Ladies’ Grammar [44] 1804. Noah Webster: A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. [45] 1809. William Hazlitt: A New and Improved Grammar of the English Tongue; 1818. William Cobbett: A Grammar of the English Language, In a ...

  4. John W. R. Taylor - Wikipedia

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    A quote from the UK Guardian newspaper said: "In 1961, when Western intelligence was fascinated by early glimpses of a new Soviet bomber, the Tupolev Tu-22, many analysts estimated it could reach a speed of Mach 2.5 - more than twice the speed of sound. But Taylor, after noting the shape of the aircraft's engine intakes, put the maximum at no ...

  5. Linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. [1] [2] [3] The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages), phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language, and analogous systems of sign languages), and pragmatics ...

  6. Instrumental case - Wikipedia

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    In grammar, the instrumental case (abbreviated INS or INSTR) is a grammatical case used to indicate that a noun is the instrument or means by or with which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action. The noun may be either a physical object or an abstract concept.

  7. Alexandra Aikhenvald - Wikipedia

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    Alexandra Aikhenvald was born to a grandson of Yuly Aykhenvald; Natalia Shvedova was her paternal aunt. She was fascinated by languages from early childhood, picking up some Spanish from her parents' Spanish flatmate, and dreaming of majoring in Latin and Classical studies in university. [3]

  8. Max Weinreich - Wikipedia

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    Max Weinreich (Yiddish: מאַקס ווײַנרײַך [2] Maks Vaynraych; Russian: Мейер Лазаревич Вайнрайх, Meyer Lazarevich Vaynraykh; 22 April 1894 – 29 January 1969) was a Russian-American-Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics [3] and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who, a sociolinguistic innovator, edited the Modern Yiddish ...

  9. Modern Swedish - Wikipedia

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    Stiernhielm was a learned man, and has been labelled the most knowledgeable man in Sweden of his time. He was probably the first to be so fascinated by the Norse languages, and spent much labor tracing the similarities between Icelandic and old Swedish.

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