LME theorists

Question 1

Johnson’s Dictionary, 1755

Answer 1

One of the most influential dictionaries
Huge step in standardisation

Question 2

Robert Lowth, 1762

Answer 2

~source of many of the prescriptive origins studied in schools
~first in a long line of usage commentators to judge lang AND describe it
~criticising ‘false syntax’ (Shakespeare, King James Bible)
~based largely on Latin grammar