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_aOstler, Rosemarie, _eauthor. |
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_aFounding grammars : _bhow early America's war over words shaped today's language / _cRosemarie Ostler. |
| 250 | _aFirst Edition. | ||
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_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c2015. |
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_avii, 309 p. ; _c22 cm |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aGrammar for a New Country -- Grammar for Different Classes of Learners -- The Value of Grammar -- Rational Grammar -- Grammar and Gentility -- The Science of Grammar -- Grammar for a New Century -- The Persistence of Grammar. | |
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_a"Who decided not to split infinitives? With whom should we take issue if in fact, we wish to boldly write what no grammarian hath writ before? In Founding Grammars, Rosemarie Ostler delves into the roots of our grammar obsession to answer these questions and many more. Standard grammar and accurate spelling are widely considered hallmarks of a good education, but their exact definitions are much more contentious -- capable of?inciting a full-blown grammar war at the splice of a comma, battles readily visible in the media and online in the comments of blogs and chat rooms. With an accessible and enthusiastic journalistic approach, Ostler considers these grammatical shibboleths, tracing current debates back to America's earliest days, an era when most families owned only two books -- the Bible and a grammar primer. Along the way, she investigates colorful historical characters on both sides of the grammar debate in her efforts to unmask the origins of contemporary speech. Linguistic founding fathers like Noah Webster, Tory expatriate Lindley Murray, and post-Civil War literary critic Richard Grant White, all play a featured role in creating the rules we've come to use, and occasionally discard, throughout the years. Founding Grammars is for curious readers who want to know where grammar rules have come from, where they've been, and where they might go next. "-- _cProvided by publisher. |
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_aEnglish language _xGrammar _xHistory. |
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_aEnglish language _xLexicology, Historical. |
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_aEnglish language _xEtymology. |
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_aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation. _2bisacsh |
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_aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century. _2bisacsh |
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