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Details for:
Burchfield, R. (2002). The English Language. New York: Oxford University Press
events
Events:
68 events from this source recorded
1499
Life of Sir Thomas Elyot
1500
Wynken de Worde's 'Ortus Vocabulorum'
1514
Life of Sir John Cheke
1525
Life of Thomas Wilson
1530
Palsgrave's 'L'ecslaircissement de la langue francoyse'
1531
Elyot's 'The Governour' published
1553
Withals' 'A Shorte Dictionarie for Yonge Begynners'
1565
Cooper's 'Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britanicae'
1573
Holyband's "The French Schoolmaster" published
1578
Florio's "First Fruits" published
1580
Bullokar's 'Booke at Large' published
1587
Thomas Thomas's "Dictionarium linguae Latinae et Anglicanae"
1591
Stepney's 'The Spanish Schoolemaister'
1596
Edmund Coote publishes 'The English Schoolemaister'
1598
John Florio's "A Worlde of Wordes"
1604
Robert Cawdrey publishes 'A table Alphabeticall'
1611
Cotgraves' 'Dictionary of the French and English Tongues'
1623
Cockeram publishes 'English Dictionarie'
1633
Holyoke's 'Dictionarium Etymologicum'
1656
Blount publishes 'Glossographia'
1658
Philipps publishes 'New World of English Words'
1676
Elisha Coles' 'An English dictionary'
1699
B.E.'s 'Dictionary of the Canting Crew'
1702
Kersey's 'New Dictionary'
1712
Swift publishes 'Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue'
1721
Bailey's 'Universal Etymological English Dictionary' published
1727
2nd volume of Bailey's dictionary
1730
Bailey's 'Dictionarium Britannicum'
1747
Johnson's 'Plan for a Dictionary' published
1755
Johnson publishes 'A dictionary of the English Language'
1761
Priestley publishes 'The Rudiments of English Grammar'
1762
Lowth publishes "Short Introduction to English Grammar"
1785
Grose's 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue'
1786
First penal colony in Australia started in Botany Bay,
1791
John Walker publishes 'Critical Pronouncing Dictionary'
1806
Webster's 'A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language' published
1808
Jamieson's ' An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language'
1828
Webster publishes "An American Dictionary of the English Language".
1837
Booth's 'The Principles of English Grammar'
1848
Weedon's ' a Practical Grammar of the English Language'
1857
Life of de Saussure
1872
Morris's 'Historical Outlines of English Accidence'
1888
First version of IPA published
1898
1st volume of Joseph Wright's 'English Dialect Dictionary'
1904
Onion's 'An Advanced English Syntax'
1911
First edition of 'Concise Oxford Dictionary'
1913
Pettman's 'Africanderisms: A Glossary'
1917
Jones's 'The English Pronouncing Dictionary' published
1926
Fowler's 'A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'
1928
Final instalment of OED published
1931
Grant & Murison's 'The Scottish National Dictionary'
1937
Partridge's 'Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional Language'
1938
'A Dictionary of American English, on Historical Principles' published
1951
Mathews' 'A Dictionary of Americanisms, on Historical Principles' published
1957
Dobson's 'English Pronunciation 1500-1700'
1957
Noam Chomsky publishes "Syntactic Structures".
1961
Webster's Third New International Dictionary published
1962
Orton et al's 'Survey of English Dialects'
1962
Quirk's 'The Use of English'
1965
Gowers' 'Modern English Usage'
1966
Labov's 'The Social Stratification of English in New York City'
1967
'Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles'
1972
Quirk et al's 'Grammar of Contemporary English'
1977
'Linguistic Atlas of England'
1981
'The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors'
1982
'O-Scz' supplement to OED
1989
The Australian National Dictionary, A Dictionary of Australianisms on Historical Principles
1997
'Dictionary of New Zealand English'