The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina iii
... grammatically . Something would be gained if our cultivation of language could be rather more centred upon the mother tongue , so that our vernacular and our philological acquirements might more effectually support one another . The ...
... grammatically . Something would be gained if our cultivation of language could be rather more centred upon the mother tongue , so that our vernacular and our philological acquirements might more effectually support one another . The ...
Pagina 36
... grammatical habit , in application , and in convertible use . In grammatical habit it has altered ; for in Saxon it had a genitive mannes , a dative men , an ( archaic ) accusative mannan , a plural men , a genitive plural manna , and a ...
... grammatical habit , in application , and in convertible use . In grammatical habit it has altered ; for in Saxon it had a genitive mannes , a dative men , an ( archaic ) accusative mannan , a plural men , a genitive plural manna , and a ...
Pagina 68
... grammatical view discredits them , is so far from being a drawback , that it is a circum- stance highly favourable to the formation of a philological habit of mind . It is the organic completeness of a language that recommends it for ...
... grammatical view discredits them , is so far from being a drawback , that it is a circum- stance highly favourable to the formation of a philological habit of mind . It is the organic completeness of a language that recommends it for ...
Pagina 128
... grammatical vowel - harmony , according to which the vowel of the stem of a word determines the vowel of the affix . Thus hoba ( skin ) makes its ablative hobahad ; warnge ( crow ) makes it warngehed ; ano ( boat ) makes the same case ...
... grammatical vowel - harmony , according to which the vowel of the stem of a word determines the vowel of the affix . Thus hoba ( skin ) makes its ablative hobahad ; warnge ( crow ) makes it warngehed ; ano ( boat ) makes the same case ...
Pagina 130
... grammatical functions , and in this new character they have secured office and position . Such are those few plurals which , like feet , geese , men , mice , are formed by inward vowel - change . The Germans have retained this plural ...
... grammatical functions , and in this new character they have secured office and position . Such are those few plurals which , like feet , geese , men , mice , are formed by inward vowel - change . The Germans have retained this plural ...
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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