Joshua Poole, The English Accidence (1646)

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Date
1646
Author
Lexicon title
Certaine Rules for the easier turning of English into Latin
Book title
The English Accidence: Or, A Short, Plaine, and Easie way for the more speedy attaining to the Latine tongue, by the help of the English. Set Out For the use and profit of young Children, & framed so, as they may bee exercised in it, as soon as they can but indifferently read English
Publication place
London
Printer
R.C.
Publisher
Henry Seile and Richard Lownes
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
  • grammar
  • Latin
Extent
24-37
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: A Noune is a word that signifies a thing, or the nature and property of a thing: as, a man, stone, tree, good, bad, foule, faire. (b2v)
Alston
I.12a; XV.973
Wing
P 2812
Other editions
1652: Wing P2812a (Alston XV.974);
1655: Wing P2813 (Alston XV.975);
1662: Wing P2818 (Alston XV.976);
1670: Wing P2819 (Alston XV.977)
Facsimiles
Poole, Josua. The English Accidence, 1646. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 5. Menston: Scolar Press, 1967. view record
Criticisms
Farrell, Alfred. "Joshua Poole and Milton's Minor Poems." 198-200. view record
Vorlat, Emma. The Development of English Grammatical Theory 1586-1737: With Special Reference to the Theory of Parts of Speech. Leuven: University Press, 1975. view record
Wallis, P. J. "Jos(h)ua Poole, Schoolmaster." Notes and Queries (1954 September): 386-87. view record
Dons, Ute. Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars. Topics in English Linguistics 47. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. 12. view record