Steven T Byington
Biographic Data
| ID | 5139582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven T Byington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven T |
| FAMILY NAME | Byington |
| SIGNATURE | BYINGTON S T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Certain Fashions in Commas and Apostrophes
THE MOST widely read literature in the United States, and consequently perhaps the most influential for the rapid introduction of new usages, is the headlines of newspapers. The world of headlines has lately been swept by a new epidemic, an extension of the substitution of the comma for the co-ordinating conjunction. If I were describing standard punctuation, 'substitution of the comma for the conjunction' would be such careless language on my pa…
More Notes by Mr. Byington
Two Notes by Mr. Byington
Interjections of Pain
Mr. Byington's Brief Case
American Variations
On Conciseness in Languages
ANY comparison of the merits of different languages is likely to remind the reader of Rivarol's essay De l'Universalitd de la langue frangaise, which has given to the world the phrase, Ce qui n'est pas clair n'est pas franpais, and the consequent belief that French is especially distinguished by clearness. Those who have read Rivarol will have observed that the original special point of that saying was that French is 'clear' in that it arranges i…
Slang and Bible Translation
HE work of making a new translation of the Bible, on which I have for years been engaged, is bound sooner or later to lead to some reflections on the subject of slang: its essential characteristics, its merits and demerits, and the question of its possible use in translating the Bible. Not, of course, that anybody would think of filling the Bible with slang from cover to cover. The first chapter of Genesis or of Ephesians, the eighth chapter of F…
The English Pluperfect
What Is Anglo-Saxon
The Attributive Noun Again
A" and "An" before "H
A Plenty, A-Plenty, Aplenty
On European and American River-Names
The Attributive Noun Becomes Cancerous
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The Attributive Noun Becomes Cancerous
On European and American River-Names
What Is Anglo-Saxon
The Attributive Noun Again
A" and "An" before "H
A Plenty, A-Plenty, Aplenty
The English Pluperfect
Slang and Bible Translation
HE work of making a new translation of the Bible, on which I have for years been engaged, is bound sooner or later to lead to some reflections on the subject of slang: its essential characteristics, its merits and demerits, and the question of its possible use in translating the Bible. Not, of course, that anybody would think of filling the Bible with slang from cover to cover. The first chapter of Genesis or of Ephesians, the eighth chapter of F…
On Conciseness in Languages
ANY comparison of the merits of different languages is likely to remind the reader of Rivarol's essay De l'Universalitd de la langue frangaise, which has given to the world the phrase, Ce qui n'est pas clair n'est pas franpais, and the consequent belief that French is especially distinguished by clearness. Those who have read Rivarol will have observed that the original special point of that saying was that French is 'clear' in that it arranges i…
American Variations
Mr. Byington's Brief Case
Interjections of Pain
Two Notes by Mr. Byington
More Notes by Mr. Byington
Certain Fashions in Commas and Apostrophes
THE MOST widely read literature in the United States, and consequently perhaps the most influential for the rapid introduction of new usages, is the headlines of newspapers. The world of headlines has lately been swept by a new epidemic, an extension of the substitution of the comma for the co-ordinating conjunction. If I were describing standard punctuation, 'substitution of the comma for the conjunction' would be such careless language on my pa…
History (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Attributive (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Legal case studies and regulations (2 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works)