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Baugh, A. C. & Cable, T. (1993). A History of the English Language 4th edition. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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Events:
92 events from this source recorded
1362
Statute of Pleading
1362
Parliament opened by speech in English for first time.
1476
Caxton introduces the printing press to England
1531
Elyot's 'The Governour' published
1558
'An A.B.C. for Children' printed sometime before this year
1568
Sir Thomas Smith's 'De Recta et Emendata Linguae Anglicae Dialogus' published
1569
John Hart's 'Orthographie' published
1570
John Hart's 'A Method' published
1580
Bullokar's 'Booke at Large' published
1582
Mulcaster's 'The first part of the Elementarie' published
1595
Carew's 'The Excellency of the English Tongue'
1607
Establishment of first permanent British colony in North America at Jamestown, Virginia.
1616
Bullokar publishes 'English Expositor'
1623
Cockeram publishes 'English Dictionarie'
1634
Butler's 'The English Grammar' published
1644
'Vindex Anglicus'
1653
John Wallis's 'Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae' published
1656
Blount publishes 'Glossographia'
1658
Philipps publishes 'New World of English Words'
1668
Bishop John Wilkins' 'Essay' published
1698
Hughes' 'Of Style'
1707
Act of Union between England and Scotland
1712
Swift publishes 'Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue'
1721
Bailey's 'Universal Etymological English Dictionary' published
1729
Cooke publishes 'Proposals for Perfecting the English Language'
1734
Loughton publishes "Practical Grammar of the English Tongue"
1755
Johnson publishes 'A dictionary of the English Language'
1756
Sheridan's 'British Education'
1761
Priestley publishes 'The Rudiments of English Grammar'
1762
Lowth publishes "Short Introduction to English Grammar"
1762
Priestly's 'Course of lectures' published
1765
Ward's 'Grammar of the English Language'
1768
Franklin devises his 'A Scheme for a New Alphabet'
1770
Baker's 'Reflections on the English language' published
1776
Campbell's 'Philosophy of Rhetoric"
1780
Adams proposes an American Academy.
1781
Witherspoon coins the term 'Americanism'
1783
Webster publishes 1st book of "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language".
1784
Webster publishes 2nd book of "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language"
1785
Webster publishes 3rd book of "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language".
1786
Jones' Third Anniversary Discourse to the Bengal Asiatic Society
1789
Webster's 'An Essay' published
1789
Webster's 'Dissertations' published
1790
Webster's 'A Collection' published
1795
Britain takes control of Cape Town
1806
Webster's 'A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language' published
1816
Pickering's 'A Vocabulary' published
1817
Webster's Letter to the Honorable John Pickering' published
1819
Stamford Raffles founds British colony of Singapore
1822
Grimm's Law postulated
1828
Webster publishes "An American Dictionary of the English Language".
1837
Pitman's shorthand system published.
1848
Bartlett's 'Dictionary of Americanisms'
1857
Philological Society decide to collect words for supplement to current dictionaries
1858
Philological Society proposes new dictionary
1864
Furnivall founds 'Early English Text Society'
1870
White's 'Words and their Uses' published
1875
Verner's Law postulated
1880
White's 'Every-Day English' published
1883
American Philological Association recommends list of spelling reforms
1884
First instalment of "A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles" (the OED)
1889
American Dialect Society formed
1898
National Education Association adopts 12 simplified spellings
1898
Morris's 'Austral English, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Phrases'
1906
Simplified Spelling Board set up
1906
Jones starts teaching at University of London
1909
Jespersen's 7 volume 'Modern English Grammar'
1913
Founding of Society for Pure English
1919
Bradley's 'on the Relation of Spoken and Written Language' published.
1919
Mencken publishes 'The American Language'
1925
Krapp's 'The English language in America' published.
1927
IRET starts on controlled vocabulary list
1930
Zachrisson's "Anglic" proposal for spelling simplification
1930
Ogden's 'Basic English' published
1931
Simplified Spelling Board's publication 'Spelling'
1933
Bloomfield's 'Language' published
1935
Cable's 'A History of the English Language' 1st edition
1937
Death of Zachrisson
1938
'A Dictionary of American English, on Historical Principles' published
1939
'Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada' published
1940
British Simplified Spelling Society's 'New Spelling' published
1944
Craigie's 'Problems of Spelling reform'
1949
Spelling reform bill defeated in British Parliament.
1949
Kurath's 'Word Geography' published
1951
Mathews' 'A Dictionary of Americanisms, on Historical Principles' published
1957
Noam Chomsky publishes "Syntactic Structures".
1959
Wijk's 'Regularized English' published
1961
Webster's Third New International Dictionary published
1965
Chomsky's 'Aspects of the Theory of Syntax' published
1967
'Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles'
1968
Chomsky & Halle's 'Sound Pattern of English'
1993
Baugh & Cable's 'A History of the English Language' 4th edition