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Crystal, D. (1997). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language: Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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53 events from this source recorded
1558
Bright's 'Characterie'
1570
John Hart's 'A Method' published
1604
Robert Cawdrey publishes 'A table Alphabeticall'
1668
Bishop John Wilkins' 'Essay' published
1709
Life of Johnson
1712
Swift publishes 'Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue'
1755
Johnson publishes 'A dictionary of the English Language'
1758
Life of Webster
1761
Priestley publishes 'The Rudiments of English Grammar'
1762
Lowth publishes "Short Introduction to English Grammar"
1775
Steele's 'An Essay'
1786
Jones' Third Anniversary Discourse to the Bengal Asiatic Society
1795
Lindley Murray's 'English Grammar, adapted to the different classes of learners' published
1816
Bopp cofirms relationship between Sanskrit and other IE languages
1828
Webster publishes "An American Dictionary of the English Language".
1833
Bopp begins publication of 'Comparative Grammar'
1837
Pitman's shorthand system published.
1844
Pitman's 'Phonotypy' alphabet published
1852
Peter Roget's 'Thesaurus' published
1857
Life of de Saussure
1864
Alford's 'The Queens English' published
1884
First instalment of "A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles" (the OED)
1886
Phonetic Teachers' Association founded
1887
Life of Bloomfield
1888
First version of IPA published
1889
Life of Ogden
1889
IPA's journal 'Le Maitre Phonetique' first published
1897
IPA takes its final name
1906
Simplified Spelling Board set up
1908
Simplified Spelling Society founded
1909
Jespersen's 7 volume 'Modern English Grammar'
1911
Boas' 'Handbook of American Indian Languages'
1916
de Saussure's 'Cours de linguistique generale' published
1921
Sapir's 'Language'
1923
Ogden's 'The Meaning of Meaning' published
1926
Fowler's 'A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'
1930
Ogden's 'Basic English' published
1933
Bloomfield's 'Language' published
1941
Birth of Krashen
1947
Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language'
1949
Kurath's 'Word Geography' published
1954
Ross's 'Linguistic class-indicators'
1957
Noam Chomsky publishes "Syntactic Structures".
1957
Osgood et al's 'The Measurement of Meaning'
1958
Berko's study into FLA morphology
1959
Pitman's Initial Teaching Alphabet
1961
Webster's Third New International Dictionary published
1972
Selinker's 'Interlanguage'
1973
Dulay & Burt's 'Should we teach children syntax?'
1975
'The Bullock Report'
1977
'Linguistic Atlas of England'
1981
'Seaspeak' project set up
1985
Quirk et al's 'A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language'