The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina iii
... function shall have its true and natural place assigned to it , according to the order , relation , and proportion dictated by the nature of language . What the nature of language is , can be ascertained only by a wide com- parison of ...
... function shall have its true and natural place assigned to it , according to the order , relation , and proportion dictated by the nature of language . What the nature of language is , can be ascertained only by a wide com- parison of ...
Pagina vi
... variety of its parts and functions , as also in the admirable free- dom and simplicity of its action . MALTBY , July 2 , 1879 . CONTENTS . HISTORIC SKETCH OF THE RISE AND FORMATION OF vi PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION .
... variety of its parts and functions , as also in the admirable free- dom and simplicity of its action . MALTBY , July 2 , 1879 . CONTENTS . HISTORIC SKETCH OF THE RISE AND FORMATION OF vi PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION .
Pagina 2
... functions so diverse and various harmoniously cooperate , none which displays so full a compass of the powers and faculties of human speech . The details of this statement will occupy the twelve chapters below : -but first I will ...
... functions so diverse and various harmoniously cooperate , none which displays so full a compass of the powers and faculties of human speech . The details of this statement will occupy the twelve chapters below : -but first I will ...
Pagina 33
... function falls on the preposition . The inflection then lives on as a familiar heirloom in the language , an ancient fashion , ornamental rather than necessary . At the first great shake which such a language gets , after it is well ...
... function falls on the preposition . The inflection then lives on as a familiar heirloom in the language , an ancient fashion , ornamental rather than necessary . At the first great shake which such a language gets , after it is well ...
Pagina 37
... function which is now partitioned : On mang pisum þingum , ' Among these things ; ' Ic seah sellic ping singan on recede , ' I saw a strange thing singing on the hall . But in Saxon it covered a greater variety of ground than it does ...
... function which is now partitioned : On mang pisum þingum , ' Among these things ; ' Ic seah sellic ping singan on recede , ' I saw a strange thing singing on the hall . But in Saxon it covered a greater variety of ground than it does ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon become Bible called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer cloth compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect distinction Edition English language example expression Extra fcap fact Faery Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words function German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guttural habit haue Hebrew High Dutch illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection Italian John John Keble King Latin Layamon letter literature Lord means mind modern Mosogothic native nature noun observe old Saxon original Ormulum orthography participle person philological philology phonetic phrasal phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronoun pronunciation relics rendered rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces translation verb vowel W. W. Skeat writing written þat