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| Year: | 1640 | ||||
| Short description: | Ben Jonson's 'English Grammar' published | ||||
| Medium description: | Ben Jonson's 'English Grammar' published. Includes notes on punctuation. Brengelman (1980) claims that "it is obvious that Ben Jonson (1640)had a copy of Mulcaster's Elementarie (or something based on it) before him when he was writing his English Grammar, although he does not acknowledge the debt." | ||||
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- Howatt, A. P. R. (1984). A History of English Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.79]
- Knowles, G. (1979). A Cultural History of The English Language. London: Arnold [p.102]
- Robins R. H. (1997). A Short History of Linguistics 4th ed. Harlow: Longman [p.137]
- Grund, Peter (2006) Book Review: Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Journal of English Linguistics 34 pp.355-358 [p.357]
- Salmon, Vivian (1999). Orthography and Punctuation. in Lass, Roger. The Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume iii 1476-1776. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.13-55 [p.36]
- Brengelman, F. H. (1980) Orthoepists, Printers, and the Rationalization of English Spelling. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 79/3 pp.332-354 [p.344]