James Howell, A New English Grammar (1662)

Date

1662

Author

James Howell Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

A New English Grammar, Prescribing as certain Rules as the Language will bear, for Forreners to learn English: Ther is also another Grammar of the Spanish or Castilian Toung, With som special remarks upon the Portugues Dialect, &c. Whereunto is annexed A Discours or Dialog containing a Perambulation of Spain and Portugall, which may serve for a direction how to travell through both Countreys, &c.

Publication place

London

Publisher

T. Williams, H. Brome, and H. Marsh

Text type

printed book

Genre

Grammars

Subject area

• grammar
• Portuguese
• Spanish

Summary

An English grammar written in English for foreigners (with logical definitions of some grammatical terms), a grammar of Castilian (including examples with Spanish terms and English equivalents), "A Short DICTIONARY OR, CATALOG Of such Portuges Words That have no Affinity with the SPANISH" (Portuguese, Spanish, and English), a dialogue, and two letters with English and Spanish proverbs

Language

headwords: Portuguese
explanations: Spanish
other languages: English
explanations: Spanish

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Abafar Garrotar To strangle (ff3r)

Alston

II.597

Wing

H 3095

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. 2583. view record

Modern editions

Howell, James. The Spelling Reforms of James Howell. Reprinted from “A New English Grammar,” 1662. Simplified Spelling Society. Pamflet no. 6 . London: n.p., 1909. view record

Criticisms

Dons, Ute. Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Topics in English Linguistics 47. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. 14-15. view record

Sources

• Sanchez Escribano, F. Javier. "Spanish Pronunciation according to Grammars by James Howell: His Sources." Miscelanea 2 (1982): 55-72. view record