Charles Butler, The English Grammar (1633)
Date
1633
Author
Charles
Butler
Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
An Index of Woords Like and Vnlike
Book title
The English Grammar, Or The Institution of Letters, Syllables, and Words, in the English tongue. Whereunto is annexed An Index of Words Like and Unlike
Publication place
Oxford
Publisher
William Turner
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
grammar
Summary
Using an eccentric alphabet, Mason offers explanations of grammatical terms and a table of like and unlike terms
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: to Reap metere, D. reopen / to rip dissuere. (c2v)
sample: to Reap metere, D. reopen / to rip dissuere. (c2v)
Alston
I.5
STC
4190
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.
5711-12.
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Other editions
1634: STC 4191 (Alston I.6)
Modern editions
Butler, Charles. Charles Butler's English Grammar. Ed. A. Eichler. Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1910.
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Criticisms
Dobson, Eric J. English Pronunciation 1500-1700. 1957. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
I: 156-65.
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Eichler, A. "Schriftbild und Lautwert in Charles Butler's English Grammar (1633, 1634) und Feminin' Monarchi' (1634)." Neudrucke Frühneuenglischer Grammatiken 4.2 (1913): view record
Hultzen, Lee S. "Charles Butler on Memory." Speech Monographs 6 (1939): 44-65. view record
Pruett, James. "Charles Butler -- Musician, Grammarian, Apiarist." The Musical Quarterly 49.4 (1963): 498-511. view record
Salmon, Vivian. "Wh- and Yes/No Questions: Charles Butler's Grammar (1633) and the History of a Concept." Linguistic Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers Dedicated to Angus McIntosh. Ed. John Anderson. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science IV, 15. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1982. 401-26. view record
Salmon, Vivian. "Tradition and Innovation in the Writings of Charles Butler (c. 1561-1647)." Linguists and their Diversions: A Festschrift for R. H. Robins on his 75th Birthday. Eds. V. Law and W. Hüllen. Münster: Nodus, 1996. 99-122. view record
Vorlat, Emma. The Development of English Grammatical Theory 1586-1737: With Special Reference to the Theory of Parts of Speech. Leuven: University Press, 1975. view record
Eichler, A. "Schriftbild und Lautwert in Charles Butler's English Grammar (1633, 1634) und Feminin' Monarchi' (1634)." Neudrucke Frühneuenglischer Grammatiken 4.2 (1913): view record
Hultzen, Lee S. "Charles Butler on Memory." Speech Monographs 6 (1939): 44-65. view record
Pruett, James. "Charles Butler -- Musician, Grammarian, Apiarist." The Musical Quarterly 49.4 (1963): 498-511. view record
Salmon, Vivian. "Wh- and Yes/No Questions: Charles Butler's Grammar (1633) and the History of a Concept." Linguistic Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers Dedicated to Angus McIntosh. Ed. John Anderson. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science IV, 15. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1982. 401-26. view record
Salmon, Vivian. "Tradition and Innovation in the Writings of Charles Butler (c. 1561-1647)." Linguists and their Diversions: A Festschrift for R. H. Robins on his 75th Birthday. Eds. V. Law and W. Hüllen. Münster: Nodus, 1996. 99-122. view record
Vorlat, Emma. The Development of English Grammatical Theory 1586-1737: With Special Reference to the Theory of Parts of Speech. Leuven: University Press, 1975. view record
