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Table of contents
Forewordvii
“Why can’t someone write a nice simple grammar?”1 Part I: Native Grammars of English
More Than Enough English Grammars11 Trends That Shaped the Development of 19th Century American Grammar Writing27 W.D. Whitney's Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools (1877)39 E.A. Sonnenschein and Grammatical Terminology57 Factors in the Growth of the English Language in 18th and 19th Century Ireland81 The Fowler Brothers and the Tradition of Usage Handbooks93 American English Grammars in the Twentieth Century113 Part II: Non-native Grammars of English
English Grammar Writing: The Belgian Contribution141 English Grammars in Postwar Czechoslovakia175 German Grammars of English prior to 1860205 Karl and Max Deutschbein's English Grammar Manuals257 Adolf Lamprecht's (German) Grammar of English277 Part III: Grammatical Analyses
Traditional Grammars of English: Facts and Explanations293 Reference and Articles309 Tense and Aspect in German Grammars of English in the Past Fifty Years329 Modality and the Modals in Traditional Grammars of English349 The Rôle of American English in Traditional Grammars of English369 Summaries381
Name index387
