The bishop's grammar [electronic resource] : Robert Lowth and the rise of prescriptivism in English / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.

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Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 340 p.) : illISBN:

9780191595219 (ebook) :

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Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:

425 22

LOC classification:

PE1074.7

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Oxford scholarship online

Summary: This is a spirited account of the life and times of one of the seminal figures in history of English grammar which dispels the myth of Lowth as the icon of prescriptivism, and establishes him as a key figure in the history of English grammar.

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This is a spirited account of the life and times of one of the seminal figures in history of English grammar which dispels the myth of Lowth as the icon of prescriptivism, and establishes him as a key figure in the history of English grammar.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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