Robert Lowth (1710-1787)
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biography
language
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Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 1998. "Standardization of English Spelling:
The Eighteenth-century Printers' Contribution". In: Jacek Fisiak and
Marcin Krygier (eds.), Advances in English Historical Linguistics (1986).
Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 456-470.
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Tieken-Boon van Ostade,
Ingrid. 2002.
“Robert Lowth and the strong verb system”, Language
Sciences, 24. 459-469.
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Tieken-Boon van Ostade,
Ingrid. 2002. “Robert Lowth and the Corpus of Early English
Correspondence”. In: Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi
and Matti Rissanen (eds.), Variation Past and Present. VARIENG Studies on
English for Terttu Nevalainen. Helsinki: Société Néophilologique. 161–172.
Lowth's grammar
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Arnovick, L. 1989. “The ‘Wallis
Rules’ as Speech Act Prescriptions: An Illocutionary Re-
Evaluation”, General Linguistics. 29. 150-158.
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Harris, P.H. 1973. “Bishop Lowth
revisited”. Transactions of Missouri Academy of Science. 78. 243-249.
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Percy, Carol E. 1997. “Paradigms Lost:
Bishop Lowth and the ‘Poetic Dialect’ in his
Grammar”. Neophilologus 81. 129-144.
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Pullum,
G.K. 1974. “Lowth’s Grammar: A Re-Evaluation”. Linguistics
137. 63–78.
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Tieken-Boon van
Ostade, Ingrid. 1997.
“Lowth’s Corpus of Prescriptivism”. In Terttu Nevalainen
and Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (eds.) To Explain the
Present, 451-463.
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Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 1998. “Robert Lowth en het ontstaan van zijn
grammatica”.
Meesterwerk. Berichten van het Peeter
Heyns Genootschap, 23-28.
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Tieken-Boon van Ostade,
Ingrid. 1999. “Robert Lowth en de norm van het
standaardengels”.
In E. Huls and B. Weltens (eds.), Artikelen van
de derde Sociolinguistische Conferentie. Delft:
Eburon, 417-427.
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Tieken-Boon van Ostade,
Ingrid. 2000.
“Robert Dodsley and the Genesis of Lowth’s Short
Introduction to English Grammar”. Historiographia
Linguistica. 27. 21-36.
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Tieken-Boon van Ostade,
Ingrid. 2002.
“Robert Lowth and the strong verb system”, Language
Sciences, 24. 459-469.
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Tieken-Boon
van Ostade, Ingrid. 2002. “Robert Lowth and the Corpus of Early English
Correspondence”. In: Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi
and Matti Rissanen (eds.), Variation Past and Present. VARIENG Studies on
English for Terttu Nevalainen. Helsinki: Société Néophilologique. 161–172.
For
additions, contact
Patricia
Chaudron or
Ingrid Tieken-Boon
van Ostade.
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