Bibliography

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Publications

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria & María E. Rodríguez-Gil (eds.). 2013. New Insights into Eighteenth-Century Grammar Writing. Transactions of the Philological Society 111(2), Special issue.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria & María E. Rodríguez-Gil. ‘Introduction’, pp. 141-2.
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria & María E. Rodríguez-Gil. ‘The ECEG-database’, pp. 143-64.
Beal, Joan C. ‘The place of pronunciation in eighteenth‐century grammars of English’, pp. 165-78.
Tyrkkö, Jukka. ‘Notes on eighteenth‐century dictionary grammars’, pp. 179-201.
Rodríguez‐Álvarez, Alicia & María E. Rodríguez‐Gil. ‘Common topics in eighteenth‐century prefaces to English school grammars: an application of the ECEG database’, pp. 202-22.
Percy, Carol. ‘J. Matlock's Young ladies guide to the knowledge of the English tongue (1715): contextualising the first grammar of English for ladies’, pp. 223-41.
Navest, Karljin & Anni Sairio. ‘John Newbery's An easy introduction to the English language (1745): audience, origin and the question of authorship’, pp. 242-58.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2017. Paratext, title-pages and grammar books. Studia Neophilologica 89(1), 41-66.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria & María E. Rodríguez-Gil. 2016. The title-page in eighteenth-century grammar books. Forum for Modern Language Studies 52(4), 369-92.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2015. Senses of grammar in the eighteenth-century English tradition. English Studies 96(8), 913-43.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2012. Grammar writing and provincial printing in the eighteenth-century British Isles. Transactions of the Philological Society 110(1), 34-63.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2011. The ‘glaring’ place of prepositions: Grammar, rhetoric and the Scottish codifiers. Historiographia Linguistica 38(3), 255-92.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2011. Mapping 18th-century grammar writers in the British Isles (and beyond). In Terttu Nevalainen & Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.), How to Deal with Data: Problems and Approaches to the Investigation of the English Language over Time and Space (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English 7). Helsinki: VARIENG. http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/series/volumes/07/yanez-bouza/

Rodríguez-Gil, María E. & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. 2009. ECEG-database: A bio-bibliographic approach to the study of eighteenth-century English grammars. In Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade & Wim van der Wurff (eds.), Current Issues in Late Modern English, 141-70. Bern: Peter Lang.

Conference presentations

2015. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. Paratext, title-pages and eighteenth-century grammar books. d2e: From Data to Evidence. Big Data, Rich Data, Uncharted Data, Helsinki, Finland. 19-22 October 2015.

2013. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. The Eighteenth-Century English Grammars database: a new resource for the history of the book and linguistic historiography. Digital Project Showcase organised during the SHARP Conference: Geographies of the Book, Philadelphia, USA. 18-21 July 2013.

2012. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria & María E. Rodríguez-Gil. New resources new approaches: the eighteenth century and the ECEG-database. 4th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, Jaén, Spain. 22-24 March 2012.

2011. Rodríguez-Gil, María E. & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. The ECEG-database online. 35th AEDEAN International Conference (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos), University of Barcelona, Spain. 16-18 November 2011.

2011. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria & María E. Rodríguez-Gil. New resources and approaches for the study of the eighteenth-century grammatical tradition: The ECEG-database. Helsinki Corpus Festival – The Past, Present and Future of English Historical Corpora, Helsinki, Finland. 28 September – 2 October 2011.

2010. Rodríguez-Gil, María E. & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. ECEG: a database of eighteenth-century English grammars and grammar-writers. Lowth Symposium, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden, The Netherlands. 17-18 December 2010.

2010. Rodríguez-Gil, María E. & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. The boom of English grammars in the eighteenth-century. The need for the ECEG-database. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. 15 December 2010.

2010. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. The ECEG database – A look into eighteenth-century grammars and grammar-writers. Lingwisticum Colloquium, University of Zürich, Switzerland. 4 November 2010.

2010. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. Grammar writing and provincial printing in the eighteenth century. The Fourth Late Modern English Conference (LMEC4), University of Sheffield, UK. 27-29 May 2010.

2009. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. ‘If Scotsmen and Irishmen were to ‘fix a standard’ … Attitudes to ‘correct’ English in 18th-century codifiers. Third International Conference on Prescriptivism: Prescriptivism and Patriotism from Nationalism to Globalization, University of Toronto, Canada. 17-19 August 2009.

2009. Rodríguez-Gil, María E. & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. ECEG: Eighteenth-Century English Grammars Revisited. ICAME30, Lancaster, UK. 27-31 May 2009. [Honourable mention: Prize for the best paper at the conference by a young researcher.]

2008. Rodríguez-Gil, María E. & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. ‘A disparate band of independent entrepreneurs’? What the ECEG-database can tell us about eighteenth-century grammarians. 15th International Conference in English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Munich, Germany. 24-30 August 2008.

2007. Rodríguez-Gil, María E. & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. A bibliographic approach to the study of eighteenth-century English grammars. Third International Conference on Late Modern English (LMEC3), Leiden, The Netherlands. 30 August – 1 September 2007.