The book offers insight into the publication history of eighteenth-century English grammars in unprecedented detail. It is based on a close analysis of various

The eighteenth century was a key period in the development of the English language, in which the modern standard emerged and many dictionaries and grammars firs

The Rhetoric of Tenses in Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations” examines the tenses of the predicates in the famous and typical passages of the monumental

This volume explores changing norms and conventions in the English language, as displayed in a broad range of historical data from more than five centuries. The

Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The