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Beskrivelse
H. Poutsma (1856-1937) is still well known among students of English grammar and its history; mainly, often exclusively, because of his monumental "Grammar of Late Modern English." The present monograph extends the canonical basis for appraisal of Poutsma's achievements: "Final Words" is the first report on work of Poutsma's that has remained unpublished, and thus so far essentially unknown.
Apart from ample information on Poutsma and his "Dictionary," "Final Words" initiates interpretation. In argumentation from a range of perspectives, the main line is that in his experimental "Dictionary" culminates Poutsma's discomfort with respect to orthodox grammar and its preconception of generalization; which anticipates in salient ways some recent developments towards individualization in comprehensive descriptions of English and of languages in general.