Pre-scientific G: prenormative, normative.

Until the end of the 16c E G wasn’t taught at schools & the word G always meant Latin G. In the middle 16^th c there appeared William Lily’s “Latin G” though it was devoted to the description of Latin it was very important for the E l-ge because it introduced for the 1 time many EG terms.

The 1type of EG is known as pre-nominative G. Its remarkable feature was that it suffered considerable influence of Latin G, because Latin at that time was the official l-ge at church, school & science. Early grammarians tried to squeeze all the forms of EG into the ling system of Latin. In morphology they borrowed the system of Latin cases for the EN. Thomas Dilworth (6 cases) gave the following paradigm: The Nom: a book, Gen: of a book, Dative: to a book, Acc: a book, Ablative: with a book, Vocative: Oh, book!

William Bullohar described 5 cases excluding The Vocative. In the 17^th c. the grammarians noticed peculiar feature of the EN. Ben Jonson marked only 2 cases for the N: 1The Absolute (the Common now) 2) a kind of Gen. John Wallis denied existence of E cases and possessive adjectives.

Parts of Speech.In Latin 8 parts of speech: N, PrN, participle, V, Adv, Prep, Conj, Interjection. This clas-n was adopted by many pre-nominative G-ns who subdivided these PofSp into declinable & indeclinable.

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