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Robert Lowth (1710-1787)

 

engraved portrait

(source: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/zbyte/sjlowth.html)

CU of inscription

 

biography

  • Hepworth, Brian. 1987. Robert Lowth, Boston: Twayne Publishers.

language

  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 1998. "Standardization of English Spelling: The Eighteenth-century Printers' Contribution". In: Jacek Fisiak and Marcin Krygier (eds.), Advances in English Historical Linguistics (1986). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 456-470. 

  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 2002. “Robert Lowth and the strong verb system”, Language Sciences, 24. 459-469.

  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 2002. “Robert Lowth and the Corpus of Early English Correspondence”. In: Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Matti Rissanen (eds.), Variation Past and Present. VARIENG Studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen. Helsinki: Société Néophilologique. 161–172.

Lowth's grammar

  • Arnovick, L. 1989. “The ‘Wallis Rules’ as Speech Act Prescriptions: An Illocutionary Re- Evaluation”, General Linguistics. 29. 150-158.

  • Harris, P.H. 1973. “Bishop Lowth revisited”. Transactions of Missouri Academy of Science. 78. 243-249.

  • Percy, Carol E. 1997. “Paradigms Lost: Bishop Lowth and the ‘Poetic Dialect’ in his Grammar”. Neophilologus 81. 129-144. 

  • Pullum, G.K. 1974. “Lowth’s Grammar: A Re-Evaluation”. Linguistics 137. 63–78.

  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 1997. “Lowth’s Corpus of Prescriptivism”. In Terttu Nevalainen and Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (eds.) To Explain the Present, 451-463.

  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 1998. “Robert Lowth en het ontstaan van zijn grammatica”. Meesterwerk. Berichten van het Peeter Heyns Genootschap, 23-28.

  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 1999. “Robert Lowth en de norm van het standaardengels”. In E. Huls and B. Weltens (eds.), Artikelen van de derde Sociolinguistische Conferentie. Delft: Eburon, 417-427.

  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 2000. “Robert Dodsley and the Genesis of Lowth’s Short Introduction to English Grammar”. Historiographia Linguistica. 27. 21-36.

  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 2002. “Robert Lowth and the strong verb system”, Language Sciences, 24. 459-469.

  • Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 2002. “Robert Lowth and the Corpus of Early English Correspondence”. In: Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Matti Rissanen (eds.), Variation Past and Present. VARIENG Studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen. Helsinki: Société Néophilologique. 161–172.

 

For additions, contact Patricia Chaudron or Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.