E.A. Sonnenschein and Grammatical Terminology

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Foreword vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. “Why can’t someone write a nice simple grammar?” 1
5. Part I: Native Grammars of English
6. More Than Enough English Grammars 11
7. Trends That Shaped the Development of 19th Century American Grammar Writing 27
8. W.D. Whitney's Essentials of English Grammar 39
9. E.A. Sonnenschein and Grammatical Terminology 57
10. Factors in the Growth of the English Language in 18th and 19th Century Ireland 81
11. The Fowler Brothers and the Tradition of Usage Handbooks 93
12. American English Grammars in the Twentieth Century 113
13. Part II
14. English Grammar Writing 141
15. E. Kruisinga 153
16. English Grammars in Postwar Czechoslovakia 175
17. German Grammars of English prior to 1860 205
18. E.A. Maetzner 233
19. Karl and Max Deutschbein's English Grammar Manuals 257
20. Adolf Lamprecht's (German) Grammar of English 277
21. Part III: Grammatical Analyses
22. Traditional Grammars of English 293
23. Reference and Articles 309
24. Tense and Aspect in German Grammars of English in the Past Fifty Years 329
25. Modality and the Modals in Traditional Grammars of English 349
26. The Rôle of American English in Traditional Grammars of English 369
27. Summaries 381
28. Name index 387