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Ute Dons, Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars

Ute Dons, Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars besprechungen Ute D o n s . Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Topics in English Linguistics 47. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004, xi + 304 pp., 88.00. Ute Dons's book was originally presented as her doctoral dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the Technical University of Aachen. It deals with the development of a grammar-writing tradition of English during the Early Modern period over a time span of roughly 120 years, starting with the earliest extant grammar of English, William Bullokar's Pamphlet for Grammar (1586), and ending with A. Lane's A Key besprechungen to the Art of Grammar, dated 1700. Dons examines sixteen grammars, twelve of which are written in English, and four in Latin. They describe the grammar of English using, to differing degrees, Latin-derived categories but do not label some forms or structures as `correct' and dismiss others as `incorrect' as their 18th century successors did. The subject of Dons's investigations are the sections on the parts of speech and syntax. Her ultimate aim is to see whether the grammars under inspection describe the ordinary language of that period. Chomsky's norm `descriptive adequacy', which appears in the title of her book, is her http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie de Gruyter

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Copyright ? 2007 Walter de Gruyter All rights reserved
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0340-5222
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1865-8938
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10.1515/ANGL.2007.512
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besprechungen Ute D o n s . Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Topics in English Linguistics 47. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004, xi + 304 pp., 88.00. Ute Dons's book was originally presented as her doctoral dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the Technical University of Aachen. It deals with the development of a grammar-writing tradition of English during the Early Modern period over a time span of roughly 120 years, starting with the earliest extant grammar of English, William Bullokar's Pamphlet for Grammar (1586), and ending with A. Lane's A Key besprechungen to the Art of Grammar, dated 1700. Dons examines sixteen grammars, twelve of which are written in English, and four in Latin. They describe the grammar of English using, to differing degrees, Latin-derived categories but do not label some forms or structures as `correct' and dismiss others as `incorrect' as their 18th century successors did. The subject of Dons's investigations are the sections on the parts of speech and syntax. Her ultimate aim is to see whether the grammars under inspection describe the ordinary language of that period. Chomsky's norm `descriptive adequacy', which appears in the title of her book, is her

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Published: Dec 1, 2007

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