Reinard Zandvoort

Reinard Willem Zandvoort (July 2, 1894 – August 7, 1990) was a Dutch professor. He taught English at the University of Groningen. He received honorary doctorates from several universities, and was a Commander in the Order of the British Empire and a Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

Biography and career Zandvoort was born in Avenhorn on July 2, 1894. He studied English at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Groningen and was an assistant teacher in Maidenhead from 1914 to 1916. this work made Zandvoort "The first – really the only – scholar to concern himself with the style of the Old Arcadia". It makes no theoretical claims or advances. said in 1986 that "If Holland still enjoys a reputation in English studies, it is largely due to 's monumental Historical Syntax of the English Language and to Zandvoort's Handbook of English Grammar"; adding that "for almost thirty years [the Handbook] maintained its position as the only useful pedagogical grammar of English that was available in The Netherlands"; eventually toppled by Randolph Quirk's Grammar of Contemporary English (1972) and other books cowritten by Quirk.

However, Aarts concludes that:

it is possible to [describe the inadequacy of Handbook] without detracting from Zandvoort's achievements. In the post-war history of the teaching of English at university level his grammar played such a crucial role, both nationally and internationally, that it deserves a permanent place in "The Great Tradition" of English grammars Flor Aarts shows that the treatment of noun phrases in Zandvoort's Handbook is utterly inadequate, and that in either Randolph Quirk et al.'s A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985) or Rodney Huddleston's Introduction to the Grammar of English (1984) is far superior. which ends: "Several hundred reviews, none of them listed here, have appeared in", followed by a list of 13 periodicals.

Sidney's "Arcadia": A comparison between the two versions. Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1929. . (And later editions.) 1929 edition via the Internet Archive. Engelse Spraakkunst voor Gymnasia (with P.J.H.O. Schut). Groningen: J.B. Wolters, 1935. . (And later editions.) A handbook of English grammar. Groningen: Wolters, 1945. (And later editions.) Seventh edition (Longman, 1975) via the Internet Archive. Collected papers: A selection of notes and articles originally published in "English Studies" and other journals. Volume 1. Groningen: J.B. Wolters, 1954. . Collected papers II: Articles in English published between 1955 and 1970. Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1970. . Wartime English: Materials for a linguistic history of World War II. Groningen Studies in English. Groningen: Wolters, 1957. . English in the Netherlands: A study in linguistic infiltration. Groningen Studies in English. Groningen: J.B. Wolters, Groningen, 1964. .