This volume brings together work from international experts on the historiography of English grammar writing who deal with a variety of topics grouped into three overlapping sections: 1. native grammars of English; 2. non-native grammars of English. 3. grammatical analyses.

1. Foreword; 2. "Why can't someone write a nice simple grammar?" (by Leitner, Gerhard); 3. Part I: Native Grammars of English; 4. More Than Enough English Grammars (by Michael, Ian); 5. Trends That Shaped the Development of 19th Century American Grammar Writing (by Downey, Charlotte); 6. W.D. Whitney's Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools (1877) (by Wachtler, Kurt); 7. E.A. Sonnenschein and Grammatical Terminology (by Walmsley, John B.); 8. Factors in the Growth of the English Language in 18th and 19th Century Ireland (by Downey, Charlotte); 9. The Fowler Brothers and the Tradition of Usage Handbooks (by Burchfield, R.W.); 10. American English Grammars in the Twentieth Century (by Algeo, John); 11. Part II: Non-native Grammars of English; 12. English Grammar Writing: The Belgian Contribution (by Tops, Guy A.J.); 13. E. Kruisinga (by Essen, Arthur van); 14. English Grammars in Postwar Czechoslovakia (by Duskova, Libuse); 15. German Grammars of English prior to 1860 (by Strauss, Wolfgang); 16. E.A. Maetzner (by Leitner, Gerhard); 17. Karl and Max Deutschbein's English Grammar Manuals (by Macht, Konrad); 18. Adolf Lamprecht's (German) Grammar of English (by Kirsten, Hans); 19. Part III: Grammatical Analyses; 20. Traditional Grammars of English: Facts and Explanations (by Aarts, Flor); 21. Reference and Articles (by Lyons, Christopher); 22. Tense and Aspect in German Grammars of English in the Past Fifty Years (by Niemeyer, Jochen); 23. Modality and the Modals in Traditional Grammars of English (by Walton, Alan); 24. The Role of American English in Traditional Grammars of English (by Ramisch, Heinrich); 25. Summaries; 26. Name index