Francis Lodwick, The Groundwork or Foundation Laid (or so Intended) for the Framing of a New Perfect Language (1652)
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Date
1652
Author
Francis Lodwick Note: 11/10/2005
For nationality: father is from Flanders, mother English
Book title
The Ground-work, Or Foundation Laid (or so intended) For the Framing of a New Perfect Language: And an Vniversall or Common Writing
Publication place
London
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
grammar
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: The Noune, the second derivation, is either Common or Proper.
By Common, we understand those Nouns which are not proper names of things, but common Derivatives from most Verbs, as Lover, Loved, Love, Loveliensse, &c.
By Proper names we understand those names of substances, whether reall or fictitious, whereby they are distinguished in their species or individiuums, as
Man, Horse, Table, House, &c.
Peter, Thomas, Pretty, Palace, &c. (p. 8)
sample: The Noune, the second derivation, is either Common or Proper.
By Common, we understand those Nouns which are not proper names of things, but common Derivatives from most Verbs, as Lover, Loved, Love, Loveliensse, &c.
By Proper names we understand those names of substances, whether reall or fictitious, whereby they are distinguished in their species or individiuums, as
Man, Horse, Table, House, &c.
Peter, Thomas, Pretty, Palace, &c. (p. 8)
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Facsimiles
Lodowyck , Francis. The Ground-work of a New Perfect Language, 1652. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 103. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. view record
