English reference grammars at the interface of linguistic theory, applied linguistics, the international sociology of English, English language teaching methodology, the historiography of linguistics and computer technology – those were the issues of the 1985 Berlin conference on English grammars which are published in this volume.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Introduction | S. 1 | ||
| Part I: Contemporary and Future Reference Grammars | |||
| Greenbaum, Sidney: | |||
| The Grammar of Contemporary English and the Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language | S. 6 | ||
| Svartvik, Jan: | |||
| A Communicative Grammar of English | S. 15 | ||
| Graustein, Gottfried: | |||
| English Grammar – A Scholarly Handbook in Teacher-Training in the GDR | S. 25 | ||
| Burchfield, Robert: | |||
| The End of the Alphabet: Last Exit to Grammar | S. 45 | ||
| Sinclair, John McH.: | |||
| First Throw Away Your Evidence | S. 56 | ||
| Werlich, Egon: | |||
| The Relevance of a Text (Type) Grammar to Foreign Language Teaching – With a Note on Text Type Switches | S. 65 | ||
| Dirven, René: | |||
| Towards a Pedagogical English Grammar | S. 89 | ||
| Ungerer, Friedrich: | |||
| Guidelines for a Multi-Purpose Teaching Grammar | S. 103 | ||
| Mindt, Dieter: | |||
| Corpus, Grammar, and Teaching English as a Foreign Language | S. 125 | ||
| Zydatiß, Wolfgang: | |||
| Grammatical Categories and their Text Functions – Some Implications for the Content of Reference Grammars | S. 140 | ||
| Bailey, Charles-James: | |||
| Where English Cannot Put a Preposition Before a Relative or Interrogative Pronoun | S. 156 | ||
| Davy, Derek: | |||
| Implications of the Emergence of New Standards of English for the Writing of English Grammars | S. 178 | ||
| Niemeyer, Jochen: | |||
| Teachers, Grammar Teaching, and Grammar Books – Some Desiderata | S. 190 | ||
| Lange, Dietrich: | |||
| Is it the School's Fault if Students don't Use Grammars? | S. 204 | ||
| Mackiewicz, Wolfgang / Preuss, Harald: | |||
| The Role of Scholarly Grammars in Course Design at University Level | S. 209 | ||
| Adler, A. / Hirschmüller, H. / Leitner, G. / Prüfer, K. / Schnorr, G.: | |||
| Grammars of English Versus Students of English | S. 223 | ||
| Part II: Historical and National Profiles of English Grammars | |||
| Robins, Robert H.: | |||
| The Evolution of English Grammar Books Since the Renaissance | S. 292 | ||
| Algeo, John: | |||
| A Grammatical Dialectic | S. 307 | ||
| Downey, Charlotte: | |||
| The Constants and Variables Which Guided the Development of American Grammar Writing in the 18th and 19th Centuries | S. 334 | ||
| Wächtler, Kurt: | |||
| Goold Brown – The American Grammarian of Grammarians in the Nineteenth Century | S. 351 | ||
| Aarts, Flor: | |||
| English Grammars and the Dutch Contribution: 1891-1985 | S. 363 | ||
| Jankowska, Aleksandra: | |||
| Polish Grammars of English | S. 387 | ||
| Sundby, Bertil: | |||
| Parallelism and Sequence in Early English Prescriptive Grammar | S. 397 | ||
| Leitner, Gerhard: | |||
| English Grammars – Past, Present and Future | S. 409 | ||
| Summaries | S. 432 | ||
| Contributors | S. 437 | ||
| Name Index | S. 442 | ||
| Key Word Index | S. 447 | ||