Thank you for the kind proposal. If you have the titles of those books, could you kindly put them in the thread of the history of English language in Linguistics Discussion Forum? I'm interested especially in the language change happened

I got this kind of knowledge through OED and a cheap book written by late Toshio Nakao who was a lecturer on history of English in some university (University of Glasgow?) in Great Britain. paco

Hi, I'm writing a History of English for my English-Italian website. I have finished a History of Italian now, and am also working at other linguistics aspects of both languages. If anyone is interested in the project, he or she can send me an

You're very welcome, Sandie. As to books and websites on grammar, you have to be very, very careful. Traditional grammars, the kind that are found most in bookstores, are full of inaccuracies on language. In many cases these inaccuracies have been

Prescriptive Grammar - Centuries of Error HOW GRAMMARS OF ENGLISH HAVE MISSED THE BOAT THERE'S BEEN MORE FLUMMOXING THAN MEETS THE EYE Charles-James N. Bailey Consider the possibility that English grammar has been misanalysed for

That's an interesting thought, Paco. At first glance, I would guess that ditransitive French verbs had to take 'de' or 'à' or an indirect object pronoun, which means the structure differs slightly: 1. Il a vendu le vélo à MrP. 2. Il lui a

Hello MrP History of English Gerunds (quoted from OED) The most notable development of the verbal nouns in form of -ing is its use as a gerund, i.e. a substantive with certain verbal functions, particularly those of being qualified by an

I have the same reaction as you do, Taka. "earlier" has the implicit comparison "earlier than you actually did"; "before" does not. "before" leaves me asking "before what?" Changing to "later /"after": I have no time to do it now; I'll do it

I am sorry Mandrake if I was not clear. In number 1, of course teacher has to work on his student's accent.... anyway, it was just a general question I posted in English Forum and many thanks to Mr Micawber who moved this question to TEFL

Could anybody please describe me how a teacher's knowing about the history of English language can help him explaining things to his students in an EFL classroom? I am studying about the history of English language. It is really interesting to