Countability in the history of English: Evidence from grammars and dictionaries by Ondřej Tichý

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Making sense: The glamorous history of English grammar (a review) by Barry Tomalin

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Mysteries of English Grammar : A Guide to Complexities of the English Language / by Calude, Andreea S., author 642168, Bauer, Laurie, 1949-, author 209753

“…"Despite a history of hundreds of years of research analysing aspects of English grammar, there are still open problems which continue to baffle language researchers today. …”

Authority in Lowth’S and Priestley’S Prefaces to Their English Grammars by Fernández Martínez Dolores

“…The eighteenth century was a crucial period in the process of codification of the English language and in the history of English grammar writing (Tieken-Boon van Ostade 2008b). …”
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Prosthesis: From Grammar to Medicine in the Earliest History of the Word by Brandon W. Hawk

“…Such an investigation reveals both a more nuanced trajectory of the early history of the word in English and fuller context for a shift in meaning from usages in the study of grammar and rhetoric to the study of medicine and surgery. …”
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The First Major Grammars of English and Romanian: A Comparative Approach by Daniela Doboș

“… If the history of the English language is the story of its written texts, the same holds true for the history of the Romanian language, and in both cases the first grammars played a major part in the shaping up of the respective vernaculars. …”
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The role of grammar in transition-probabilities of subsequent words in English text. by Rudolf Hanel, Stefan Thurner

“…While the first word in a sentence can be chosen from the entire vocabulary, typically, the freedom of choosing subsequent words gets more and more constrained by grammar and context, as the sentence progresses. This sample-space reducing property offers a natural explanation of Zipf's law in word frequencies, however, it fails to capture the structure of the word-to-word transition probability matrices of English text. …”
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Gamifying Grammar Games (3G) for language learning: Engaging students in learning through GIGvaganza. (Get into Grammar) in ECER programme by Noor Azlinda, Zainal Abidin

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The “Stranger” and the Grammarian: When Early English Grammarians Reached Out by Henri Le Prieult

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Stylistic Use of the Grammatical Tense Category in the Middle English Prose by Yuliya P. Vyshenskaya

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Errors and Learning/Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language: an Exercise in Grammaticology by Andrea Nava

“…While much academic interest has been devoted to the analysis of English pedagogical grammar books (and usage manuals) aimed at native speakers (‘prescriptive’ grammar books and usage manuals, cf. …”
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TO THE QUESTION OF THE “BE + PARTICIPLE I” COSTRUCTION GRAMMATICALIZATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by Alina Yurevna Sokolova

“…The results of the study can be applied in the practice of teaching English, in theoretical courses in grammar, lexicology and the history of the English language.…”
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HISTORY AND MODERNITY OF NORMATIVE TRADITION IN BRITISH LINGUISTICS by Gavrilova, Yu.V.

“…The article deals with studying the history of English normative tradition in grammar, phraseology and pronunciation. …”
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OE CAI: COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION OF OLD ENGLISH by Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes

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THE COMPARISONS AND CONTRASTS BETWEEN ENGLISH AND MALAY LANGUAGES by Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi, Lidwina Teo Pik Ching, Norbahyah Binti Jamaludin, Muhammad Nur Haziq Bin Ramli, Muhammad Habibbullah Bin Razali, Muhammad Ammar Yasser Bin Amram, Kauselya A/P Jayakumar

“…However, both languages underwent different history and composition. This study investigates the languages in terms of history, phonology, loanwords, grammar, morphology and semantics. …”
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Usage on the move: Evolution and re-volution by Michael McCarthy

“…As well as the evidence of corpora, grammars and usage manuals of former decades and centuries reveal not only how standards of correctness and good style in relation to speaking and writing were perceived in their time, but also how some of the present-day debates relating to particular points of usage have a long history, including features of recent Americanisation. …”
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The literary form of the Middle English pastoral manual with particular reference to the Speculum Christiani and some related texts by Gillespie, VA

“…Chapter two examines the elementary and grammar schools and their books to show the ways in which pastoral handbooks were perhaps influenced by and overlapped with the 'set-texts' in the medieval English schools. …”

Tim William Machan. (2009). Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press by Nadeane Trowse

“…Tim William Machan’s book Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English illuminates the status of English in the context of a conflictual history. …”
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The Middle English Creolization Hypothesis: Persistence, Implications, and Language Ideology by O’Neil David

“…The fourth and final section examines challenges presented by the concept of creole exceptionalism to common attitudes about language equality and the theory of Universal Grammar. It is argued that these issues attract greater interest when contextualized within a discussion of a “major” world language such as English than when creolization is understood as an atypical process restricted to “peripheral” languages such as Haitian Creole. …”
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Writing in English in Italy – from ‘compositions’ to ‘academic writing’ by Andrea Nava

“…This article aims to investigate the evolution of L2 English writing instruction in the 20th century, focusing on the ‘pre-history’ of academic writing in Italy – when writing was mainly viewed as an ancillary activity, often added to grammar/translation language classes. …”
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