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Details for:
Greenbaum, S. G. (1996). Oxford English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press
events
Events:
19 events from this source recorded
1536
Act of Union with Wales
1543
2nd Act of Union with Wales
1607
Establishment of first permanent British colony in North America at Jamestown, Virginia.
1653
John Wallis's 'Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae' published
1713
Gibraltar ceded by Spain to Britain
1755
Johnson publishes 'A dictionary of the English Language'
1763
Canada becomes a British possession
1802
Malta becomes a British colony
1810
Mauritius becomes British colony
1822
Liberia founded
1835
Macauley's Minute to Lord Bentinck
1840
New Zealand made a colony of Britain
1842
Hong Kong ceded to Britain
1862
Belize (British Honduras) becomes a British colony
1898
The Philippines becomes an American colony
1909
Jespersen's 7 volume 'Modern English Grammar'
1957
Noam Chomsky publishes "Syntactic Structures".
1985
Quirk et al's 'A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language'
1995
Greenbaum's 'The Oxford Grammar of English'