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Twenty-first-century grammarians of English might incorporate data derived from any of these sources. That was not necessarily true for their predecessors. However, it is worthwhile keeping in mind that, as Andrew Linn wrote, ‘grammar-writing in the modern age carries its past with it’ (2006: 74).
May 6, 2002 · Thomas of Erfurt. Thomas of Erfurt was the most influential member of a group of later medieval philosophers known as the speculative grammarians or Modistae (Modists), after the central place they assigned to the modi significandi (modes of signification) of a word in their analyses of human discourse. The notion that a word, once it has been ...
Aug 28, 2018 · The main sources on grammarians, in addition to their own works, are to be found, for the Greeks, in the Souda’s biographical entries (a Byzantine encyclopedic dictionary from the end of the 10th century), Sextus Empiricus (Against the Professors), and Diogenes Laërtius (Lives of the Philosophers); for the Latins, in Suetonius (De ...
The prescriptive dictum that some linguistic variants are superior to others has strong roots in the eighteenth-century grammatical tradition. Synthesizing contemporary research on prescriptivism, this chapter uses the grammarian Robert Lowth as a lens for reinvestigating its linguistic and social dynamics.
Feb 17, 2021 · Instead, the debate has reverted to inappropriate “what works” discourses. This article discusses these discourses and the need to re-imagine why and how we teach grammar, drawing on sustained and cumulative research evidence.
May 21, 2009 · Linguists draw on evidence from grammar acquisition in meeting explanatory adequacy, evidence from pragmatics in discerning what falls within the core language faculty and what falls outside it, evidence from pathological cases and evidence from work on the brain.
Jun 17, 2021 · Dropped into conversation, historically and contemporaneously, it is likely to elicit the view that young people today aren’t taught grammar as they used to be. More recently the alleged decline is said to have started in the 1960s, when “creativity” took over from “formal English”.
