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Zusatztext thoroughly researched and extremely well-written study of language change and grammatical description of Late Modern English verbal syntax. Informationen zum Autor Lieselotte Anderwald is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Kiel University, Germany. She specializes in corpus-based variation studies, dialect grammar, and grammar writing in the 19th century. Klappentext Based on 258 English grammar books, Language Between Description and Prescription investigates nineteenth-century grammar writing relating to actual language change, especially in the verb phrase. Lieselotte Andewald proposes that not all changes were noticed in the first place, and those that were noticed were not necessarily criticized. Zusammenfassung Based on 258 English grammar books, Language Between Description and Prescription investigates nineteenth-century grammar writing relating to actual language change, especially in the verb phrase. Lieselotte Andewald proposes that not all changes were noticed in the first place, and those that were noticed were not necessarily criticized. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 First remarks 1.2 Previous research 1.2.1 The nineteenth century - still a gap 1.2.2 Eighteenth-century grammar writing: Bio-bibliographic studies 1.2.3 Studies of prescriptions/proscriptions 1.2.4 Correlating grammarians' views with language change 1.2.5 After 1800 1.3 This book 1.3.1 Grammaticography and normativity 1.3.2 The grammars: The CNG 1.3.3 Corpora employed 1.3.4 Background assumptions 1.3.5 Terminology used 1.4 Structure of this book 2 Defining the verb: form, meaning and syntax 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Defining verbs 2.3 Subdividing verbs: from active - passive - neuter to transitive - intransitive 2.4 The form of verbs: regular vs. irregular 2.4.1 The historical evolution of terminology 2.4.2 Defining regular, defining weak 2.5 The tenses of English 2.5.1 Defining tense 2.5.2 The status of the will-future 2.5.3 Other future constructions 2.5.4 The status of the perfect 2.6 Summary 3 Variable past tense forms I: strong verbs old and new 3.1 Introduction 3.2 u/a verbs 3.2.1 History of u/a-verbs 3.2.2 Corpus data 3.2.3 The SING and SLING classes in eighteenth-century grammar writing 3.2.4 The SING class in the CNG 3.2.5 Shrink in the CNG 3.2.6 The SLING class in the CNG 3.2.7 Qualitative comments in the CNG 3.3 Strong vs. weak verbs 3.3.1 Regularization and irregularization 3.3.2 Corpus data 3.3.3 Thrive, dive, sneak and drag in eighteenth-century grammar writing 3.3.4 Thrive in the CNG 3.3.5 Dive in the CNG 3.4 Summary and discussion 4 Variable past tense forms II: irregular weak verbs 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Weak verbs with vowel change: The DREAM class 4.2.1 History and previous studies 4.2.2 Corpus data 4.2.3 The DREAM class in eighteenth-century grammar writing 4.2.4 Kneel in the CNG 4.2.5 Dream in the CNG 4.2.6 Lean in the CNG 4.2.7 Leap in the CNG 4.2.8 Plead in the CNG 4.2.9 Interim summary 4.3 Irregular weak verbs without vowel change: The BURN class 4.3.1 History and previous studies 4.3.2 Corpus data 4.3.3 The BURN class in eighteenth-century grammar writing 4.3.4 Dwell in the CNG 4.3.5 Spill in the CNG 4.3.6 Burn in the CNG 4.4 Summary and discussion: Evidence of successful prescription? 5 The be-perfect: a grammatical blind spot 5.1 Introduction 5.2 History and previous studies 5.3 Corpus data 5.4. The be-perfect in eighteenth-century grammar writing 5.5 The be-perfect in the CNG 5.5.1 Overview 5.5.2 The be-perfect as a passive 5.5.3 The be-perfect as a stative construction 5.5.4 Evaluating the be-perfect 5.6 Summary and discussion 6 'A pecu...
