From the history of standardization of the English language: the projects of the 16th and the 17th centuries
One of the most significant events among the attempts to standardize the english language in the age of enlightenment was the well-known project by Jonathan Swift, which remained unrealized. It had been preceded in the 16th and 17th centuries by a number of other projects, which, so far, have not become the object of linguistic analysis, though they are of apparent interest not only to historiography of linguistics, but also to socio- and ethno-psycholinguistic studies. the present article describes the results of the research into the history and the contents of these projects.