Paul Greaves, Grammatica Anglicana (1594)
Date
1594
Lexicographer
P.
G.(alternate name for
Paul
Greaves
)
Book title
Grammatica Anglicana, præcipuè quatenus agrave; Latina Differt, Ad Vnicam P. Rami methodum concinnata
Publication place
Cambridge
Publisher
John Legatt
Transcription source
Scolar Press Facsimile (British Library G.7479)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- grammar
- Middle English
Summary
(a) A Latin grammar with English word-citations, "Dictionariolvm vocum Anglicarum, cuæ passim in libello occurrunt"; (b) a bilingual "Analysis Grammatica, ad nostra huius artis præcepta unitè conformata", English-Latin glossary, English-Latin word-entries for English function words (indexed to the Latin grammar); and (c) an English-Latin Chaucer vocabulary (the last of which appears only in the British Library copy), "Vocabulva Chauceriana quædam selectiora, et Minvs Vvlgaria Ipsæ Hodie Poetarum deliciæ, vnà cum eorum significatis"
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
Extent
E5r-E8r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: (a) I] pronomen primitivum demonstrativum: Sing. I, Me, pl. We, Vs, Pag. 14. Lin. 5.
(b) to Abide Moror
(c) Ander Other
sample: (a) I] pronomen primitivum demonstrativum: Sing. I, Me, pl. We, Vs, Pag. 14. Lin. 5.
(b) to Abide Moror
(c) Ander Other
Alston
I.2
Schafer
1594 G
STC
12208
Catalog
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927.
5702.
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Facsimiles
Greaves, Paul. Grammatica Anglicana, 1594. English linguistics 1500-1800, no. 169. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969.
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Modern editions
Funke, Otto. "Grammatica Anglicana von Gr. (1594)." Wiener Beiträge zur englischen Philologie 60 (1938):
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Criticisms
Enkvist, Nils Erik. "Paul Greaves, Author of Grammatica Anglicana." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 59 (1958): 277-79.
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Rösler, Margarete. "Veraltete Wörter in der Grammatica Anglicana von 1594." Englische Studien 53 (1919-20): 168-95. view record
Scheurweghs, G. "The Grammatica Anglicana of Paul Greaves, 1594." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 59 (1958): 277-79. view record
Dons, Ute. Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Topics in English Linguistics 47. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. 8. view record
Rösler, Margarete. "Veraltete Wörter in der Grammatica Anglicana von 1594." Englische Studien 53 (1919-20): 168-95. view record
Scheurweghs, G. "The Grammatica Anglicana of Paul Greaves, 1594." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 59 (1958): 277-79. view record
Dons, Ute. Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Topics in English Linguistics 47. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. 8. view record
