A modern English grammar on historical principles.
Contributors: Niels Haislund, Paul Christophersen, Knus Schibsbye
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 1954
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
First sentence: (Preface) It has been my endeavour in this work to represent English Grammar not as a set of stiff dogmatic precepts, according to which some things are correct and others absolutely wrong, but as something living and developing under continual fluctuations and undulations, something that is founded on the past and prepares the way for the future, something that is not always consistent and perfect, but progressing and perfectible - in one word, human
Notes: A 1954 Reprint of a 1948 phototyped edition:
Part I, Sounds and Spellings, 1909 ;  Part II, Syntax, First Volume, 1914;  Part III, Syntax, Second Volume, 1927;  Part IV, Syntax, Third Volume, 1931;  Part V, Syntax, Fourth Volume, 1940, Part VI, Morphology, 1942; Part VII, Syntax ( Completed and edited by Niels Haislund), 1949

Originallyi publshed by George Allen & Unwin, London and Ejnar Munksgaard, Copenhagen