María E. Rodríguez Gil

List of John Benjamins publications in which María E. Rodríguez Gil is involved.

Articles

Rodríguez Gil, María E. 2012 Lowth’s Legacy in Teaching English to Foreigners: The case of Thomas Connelly’s English grammar in Spain Robert Lowth (1710-1787): The making of his grammar and its influence, Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (ed.), pp. 27–42 | Article

This article sheds light on the influence exerted by Robert Lowth’s (1787–1710) English grammar (1762) overseas in the teaching of English as a foreign language, and more particularly, on the work of the Irish friar Thomas Connelly (1728–1800), author of the most popular English grammar for… read more

Rodríguez Gil, María E. 2006 Deconstructing female conventions: Ann Fisher (1719–1778) New Approaches to the Study of Later Modern English, pp. 11–38 | Article

This paper examines Ann Fisher’s (1719–1778) most important and influential work, A New Grammar (1745?). In this grammar, the author did not follow the trend of making English grammar fit the Latin pattern, a common practice still in the eighteenth century. Instead, she wrote an English grammar… read more