Research
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ECEG = Eighteenth-Century English Grammars database, 2010. Compiled by María E. Rodríguez-Gil (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (The University of Manchester, UK).Conference & Seminar Papers
2007. Rodríguez-Gil, María Esther & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. A Bibliographic Approach to the Study of Eighteenth-Century English Grammars. Third International Conference on Late Modern English (LMEC3), Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Netherlands. 30 August - 1 September 2007. Handout available here.
2008. Rodríguez-Gil, María Esther & 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.
2009. Rodríguez-Gil, María Esther & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. ECEG: Eighteenth-Century English Grammars Revisited. ICAME30, Lancaster University, UK. 27-31 May 2009. [Honourable mention: Prize for the best paper at the conference by a young researcher]
2009. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 'If Scotsmen and Irishmen were to 'fix a standard' & Attitudes to 'Correct' English by Eighteenth-Century Codifiers. Third International Conference on Prescriptivism: Prescriptivism and patriotism from nationalism to globalization, University of Toronto, Canada. 17-19 August, 2009.
2010. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. Grammar Writing and Provincial Printing in the Eighteenth-Century British Isles. The Fourth Late Modern English Conference (LMEC4), University of Sheffield, UK. 27-29 May, 2010.
2010. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. The ECEG Database - A Look into Eighteenth-Century Grammars and Grammar-Writers. The Lingwisticum Colloquium, University of Zürich, Switzerland. 4 November 2010.
2010. Rodríguez-Gil, María Esther & 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. 14 December 2010.
2010. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria & Rodríguez-Gil, María Esther. ECEG: a database of eighteenth-century English grammars and grammar-writers. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Netherlands. 17-18 December 2010.
2011. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria & Rodríguez-Gil, María Esther. New resources and approaches for the study of the eighteenth-century grammatical tradition: The ECEG-database. The Helsinki Corpus Festival – The Past, Present and Future of English Historical Corpora, Helsinki. 28 September – 2 October 2011. Handout available here.
2011. Rodríguez-Gil, María Esther & 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.
Publications & Work in Progress
2009. Rodríguez-Gil, María Esther & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. 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, 141-170. Bern: Peter Lang.
2011, forthcoming. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. Mapping Eighteenth-Century Grammarians 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, VARIENG).
2011, forthcoming. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. Grammar Writing and Provincial Printing in the Eighteenth-Century British Isles. Transactions of the Philological Society 109.
2011, forthcoming. Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. The 'Glaring' Place of Prepositions: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Scottish Codifiers. Historiographia Linguistica 38(1).
in prep. Rodríguez-Gil, María Esther. Eighteenth-Century Authors: Grammarians or Grammar-Writers?
NB. Please note that, given the ongoing nature of the project from 2006 to 2010, the data reported in different papers may vary slightly.