Henry Sweet
Henry Sweet wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 1891–1892.
Papers
- A Short Historical English Grammar (1892)
Sweet's short grammar is an abridgment of the historical parts of his New English Grammar. Its aim is to give students an up-to-date account of English phonology, dialectology and chronology, with careful separation of what is in living use from what is obsolete. It leaves out Grimm's and Verner's laws, which belong… - A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical (1891)
The first large scholarly grammar of English to combine a description of the contemporary language with its history.
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