Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England. Edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Fitzmaurice, Susan M.

doi:10.1075/hl.37.1-2.12fit

Review published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 37:1/2 (2010) ► pp.221–225

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Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England. Edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Reviewed by

Susan M. Fitzmaurice | University of Sheffield

Published online: 21 May 2010

https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.37.1-2.12fit

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Priestley, Joseph. 1761. The Rudiments of English Grammar. London: R. Griffiths. (2nd ed., 1768.)

Watts, Richard. 1999. “The Social Construction of Standard English: Grammar writers as a ‘discourse community’”. Standard English: The widening debate ed. by Tony Bex & Richard Watts, 40–68. London: Routledge.