Thomas Frank

List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas Frank is involved.

Frank, Thomas 1992 Wilkin's Natural Grammar: The verb phrase John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics, Subbiondo, Joseph L. (ed.), pp. 263–278 | To be specified

Frank, Thomas 1990 Hugh Blair’s theory of the origin and the basic functions of language Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Adamson, Sylvia M., Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright (eds.), pp. 165–188 | Article

Frank, Thomas 1989 Prospettive di storia della linguistica. Lingua linguaggio comunicazione sociale. A cura di Lia Formigari & Franco Lo Piparo; Prefazione di Tullio De Mauro Historiographia Linguistica 16:3, pp. 379–387 | Review

Frank, Thomas 1983 The first Italian grammars of the English language Historiographia Linguistica 10:1/2, pp. 25–61 | Article

Five grammars of the English language for the use of Italian learners (Pleunus 1701, Altieri 1728, Baretti 1762, Barker 1766, and Dalmazzoni 1788) were published during the 18th century. These grammars show that there was a growing interest in the English language and in English culture in… read more