English Traditional Grammars

Abstract

1. Foreword 2. Why can't someone write a nice simple grammar? (by Leitner, Gerhard) 3. Part I: Native Grammars of English 4. More Than Enough English Grammars (by Michael, Ian) 5. Trends That Shaped the Development of 19th Century American Grammar Writing (by Downey, Charlotte) 6. W.D. Whitney's Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools (1877) (by Wachtler, Kurt) 7. E.A. Sonnenschein and Grammatical Terminology (by Walmsley, John B.) 8. Factors in the Growth of the English Language in 18th and 19th Century Ireland (by Downey, Charlotte) 9. The Fowler Brothers and the Tradition of Usage Handbooks (by Burchfield, Robert) 10. American English Grammars in the Twentieth Century (by Algeo, John) 11. Part II: Non-native Grammars of English 12. English Grammar Writing: The Belgian Contribution (by Tops, Guy A.J.) 13. E. Kruisinga (by Essen, Arthur van) 14. English Grammars in Postwar Czechoslovakia (by Duskova, Libuse) 15. German Grammars of English prior to 1860 (by Strauss, Wolfgang) 16. E.A. Maetzner (by Leitner, Gerhard) 17. Karl and Max Deutschbein's English Grammar Manuals (by Macht, Konrad) 18. Adolf Lamprecht's (German) Grammar of English (by Kirsten, Hans) 19. Part III: Grammatical Analyses 20. Traditional Grammars of English: Facts and Explanations (by Aarts, Flor) 21. Reference and Articles (by Lyons, Christopher) 22. Tense and Aspect in German Grammars of English in the Past Fifty Years (by Niemeyer, Jochen) 23. Modality and the Modals in Traditional Grammars of English (by Walton, Alan) 24. The Role of American English in Traditional Grammars of English (by Ramisch, Heinrich) 25. Summaries 26. Name index