Across
- 1. author of 'A Dictionary of the English Language': Samuel ...
- 3. treatise on politics by Thomas Hobbes
- 5. derogatory term for those accused of being irrational
- 6. author of the 'Proposal for Corecting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue': Jonathan ...
- 7. author and proponent of the standardization of English: John ...
- 8. word-formation technique regarded as 'barbarism'
- 9. proposed framework of sytanctic and morphological rules applicable to all languages (two words)
- 14. early advocate of descriptive / usage-based linguistics: George ...
- 16. need for standardization and regulation
- 18. one of two dominant movements in literature / culture during the LEC
- 19. model example for 'correct' grammar
- 21. history of a word's development
Down
- 2. a phrase which breaks grammatical rules
- 3. group oh theologians opposed to excessive dogmatism
- 4. 'the disgrace of our language' according to Swift
- 9. 'the sole arbiter and norm of speech'
- 10. anonymous pamphlet defending language change (two words)
- 11. new genre (and matching appropriate register) emerging in the long 18th century (two words)
- 12. prominent platform for scientific discourse in England (two words)
- 13. author of 'The Rudiments of Grammar', critic of overly prescriptive approaches: Joseph ...
- 15. the kind of language suitable for poetry (two words)
- 16. first half of the 18th cantury in England: ... Age
- 17. one of two dominant movements in literature / culture during the LEC
- 20. any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections (according to the 'Dictionary of the English Language')