The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 27
... notice again until the four- teenth century , when that dialect had shaped itself into a new and distinct national language for the kingdom of Scotland . Barbour in his poem of the Bruce determined the character of modern Scottish , and ...
... notice again until the four- teenth century , when that dialect had shaped itself into a new and distinct national language for the kingdom of Scotland . Barbour in his poem of the Bruce determined the character of modern Scottish , and ...
Pagina 84
... notice from the alteration that has taken place in the meaning of words . In the following quotation from the Prologue , there are two of these diglottisms in a single line : - A knyght ther was and that a worthy man , That fro the tyme ...
... notice from the alteration that has taken place in the meaning of words . In the following quotation from the Prologue , there are two of these diglottisms in a single line : - A knyght ther was and that a worthy man , That fro the tyme ...
Pagina 89
... notice of certain traits which our English poetic diction has inherited from the bilingual period . There is what may be called the ambidextral adjective ; where two adjectives are given to one substantive , one being placed before and ...
... notice of certain traits which our English poetic diction has inherited from the bilingual period . There is what may be called the ambidextral adjective ; where two adjectives are given to one substantive , one being placed before and ...
Pagina 152
... notice of it shall close this division , which has been occupied with the modi- fications that befell the old Saxon spelling . Initial GH as equivalent to G ( hard ) or French Gu , is an Italian affectation , and for the most part a toy ...
... notice of it shall close this division , which has been occupied with the modi- fications that befell the old Saxon spelling . Initial GH as equivalent to G ( hard ) or French Gu , is an Italian affectation , and for the most part a toy ...
Pagina 169
... notice here , because there is no diphthong ; the e in these cases being but the e - subscript , though no consonant intervenes . But there was an OE of a thoroughly diphthongal character , which repre- sented the French eu or sometimes ...
... notice here , because there is no diphthong ; the e in these cases being but the e - subscript , though no consonant intervenes . But there was an OE of a thoroughly diphthongal character , which repre- sented the French eu or sometimes ...
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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