Grammars of Approach - Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque

A very close look at language and landscape design in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, looking at how the word "approach" changed from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive up to an estate.

Summary

A very close look at language and landscape design in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, looking at how the word "approach" changed from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive up to an estate.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Wall, Wall Cynthia
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780226467832
• ISBN: 978-0-226-46783-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics