Description |
xii, 590 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Chaos -- The firste fyndere of our faire langage -- Chaucer's successors and the aureate language -- Caxton and the printing press -- Transition from middle English to modern English -- Humanism -- Purism -- Sixteenth-century rhetoric -- Shakespeare and rhetoric -- Shakespeare and the language of his time -- Classicism and the schoolmaster -- The restoration period -- The Augustan age -- Johnson's dictionary -- Eighteenth-century grammarians -- English purists and scotch rhetoricians -- The art of pointing, or punctuation -- Fixing the pronunciation -- Beginning of American English -- The nineteenth century -- Revolt -- Modern spelling and pronunciation |
Notes |
"Unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published ... in 1928 under the title Modern English in the making." |
Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes |
Subject |
English language -- Grammar, Historical.
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English language -- History.
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Author |
Emsley, Bert, 1889- author
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LC no. |
68017396 |
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