Bertil Sundby

List of John Benjamins publications in which Bertil Sundby is involved.

Title

A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG)

Bertil Sundby, Anne Kari Bjørge and Kari E. Haugland

Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 63] 1991. x, 486 pp.

Articles

Sundby, Bertil 1985 E. Kruisinga: A Chapter in the History of Linguistics in the Netherlands. By A. J. van Essen Historiographia Linguistica 12:3, pp. 461–469 | Review

Sundby, Bertil 1979 A Seventeenth-Century Polyglot Grammar Historiographia Linguistica 6:1, pp. 1–14 | Article

Jean Sterpin was a Frenchman who flourished in Copenhagen in the mid-nth century. His claim to recognition rests on his polyglot grammar, Institu-tiones Glotticæ (c. l668). Sterpin was acquainted with the language philosophy of Comenius, whose Janua Linguarum (1631) had set the pattern of the… read more