Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English: Preposition Placement 1500–1900

Nuria Yáñez-Bouza

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511732522

References

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I. Eighteenth-century sources in the precept database¹

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ARCHER 3.1 = A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers version 3.1. 1990–1993/2002/2007/2010/2013/2016. Originally compiled under the supervision of Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan at Northern Arizona University and University of Southern California; modified and expanded by subsequent members of a consortium of universities. Current member universities are Bamberg, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Helsinki, Lancaster, Leicester, Manchester, Michigan, Northern Arizona, Santiago de Compostela, Southern California, Trier, Uppsala, Zurich. Examples of usage taken from ARCHER were obtained under the terms of the ARCHER User Agreement (available on the Documentation page of the ARCHER website, www.manchester.ac.uk/archer/).

The Century of Prose Corpus. Compiled by Louis T. Milić. [See Milić, Louis T. 1995. The Century of Prose Corpus: A half-million word historical data base. Computers and the Humanities 29: 327–37.]

CNG = Collection of Nineteenth-Century Grammar. Under construction. Compiled by Lieselotte Anderwald: www.anglistik.uni-kiel.de/de/fachgebiete/linguistik/anderwald/cng-collection-of-nineteenth-century-grammar.

ECCO = Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Digital Collections: http://gale.cengage.co.uk/product-highlights/history/eighteenth-century-collections-online.aspx.

ECEG = Eighteenth-Century English Grammars database. 2010. Compiled by María E. Rodríguez-Gil (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (University of Manchester, UK): www.manchester.ac.uk/eceg.

EEBO = Early English Books Online. ProQuest LLC: http://eebo.chadwyck.com/.

HC = The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts (1991). Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki. Compiled by Matti Rissanen (Project leader), Merja Kytö (Project secretary); Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Matti Kilpiö (Old English); Saara Nevanlinna, Irma Taavitsainen (Middle English); Terttu Nevalainen, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg (Early Modern English): www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/HelsinkiCorpus/index.html.

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² The surname Meikleham is a spelling variant of M’Ilquham.

Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English

Preposition Placement 1500–1900

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Contents

Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English - Half title page
pp i-i

General editor
pp ii-iv

Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English - Title page
pp v-v

Copyright page
pp vi-vi

Dedication
pp vii-viii

Contents
pp ix-xi

Figures
pp xii-xiii

Tables
pp xiv-xiv

Acknowledgements
pp xv-xvi

Abbreviations
pp xvii-xviii

Chapter 1 - Introduction
pp 1-23

Chapter 2 - Methodology
pp 24-55

Chapter 3 - Eighteenth-century precept
pp 56-105

Chapter 4 - Usage in Early and Late Modern English
pp 106-152

Chapter 5 - Grammar, rhetoric and style
pp 153-283

Chapter 6 - Latent awareness
pp 284-303

Chapter 7 - Conclusion
pp 304-310

Appendices
pp 311-324

Bibliography
pp 325-366

Index
pp 367-374

Bibliography

I. Eighteenth-century sources in the precept database¹

II. Other sources related to the analysis of precept pre–1900

III. Electronic collections and collected volumes

IV. Secondary sources

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