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An Abundance of Negatives
A brief history of the concept of multiple negation in English from Robert Lowth to the present day.
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Language Learning Strategies for the Adult
Using the twin concepts of competence and performance discusses the method whereby adults learn foreign languages.
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Illocution and Perlocution
A short demonstration of the variety and versatility of English verb-of-motion predicates.
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George Eliot and Lindley Murray
George Eliot’s mentions of Lindley Murray’s English Grammar in Middlemarch and their significance for 19thC cultural history.
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Traditional Grammar and Corpus Linguistics
A study of Robert Lowth’s theory and methodology in compiling his Short Introduction to English Grammar.
Potential Mood
Treats the use made of the so-called ‘Potential Mood’ of the English verb by George Eliot and Charles Dickens, showing how the authors use different novelistic devices to attain different ends. The immediate source of the concept of ‘Potential Mood’ is Lindley Murray’s English Grammar.
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Cara, vale
A complete collection of all known published versions of Robert Lowth’s famous epitaph on the death of his beloved daughter Mary. With a grammatical analysis of Lowth’s original Latin text, and commentary on later versions.
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