The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 15
... ancient language . It is by this , and this alone , that we are able to realise to how high a pitch of inflection the speech of our own race was once carried . Inflections which in German , or even in Anglo - Saxon , are but ...
... ancient language . It is by this , and this alone , that we are able to realise to how high a pitch of inflection the speech of our own race was once carried . Inflections which in German , or even in Anglo - Saxon , are but ...
Pagina 18
... ancient Keltic dialect somewhat tinctured with Latin . The Britons had been in subjection to Roman dominion for a space of between three and four centuries . This would naturally have left a trace upon their language . And hence we find ...
... ancient Keltic dialect somewhat tinctured with Latin . The Britons had been in subjection to Roman dominion for a space of between three and four centuries . This would naturally have left a trace upon their language . And hence we find ...
Pagina 19
... ancient towns , which have been handed on from Keltic times to ours . Thus the river - name Avon is unquestionably British , and it is the common word for river in Wales to this day . So again with regard to that large class of river ...
... ancient towns , which have been handed on from Keltic times to ours . Thus the river - name Avon is unquestionably British , and it is the common word for river in Wales to this day . So again with regard to that large class of river ...
Pagina 33
... ancient fashion , ornamental rather than necessary . At the first great shake which such a language gets , after it is well furnished with prepositions , there will most likely be a great shedding of inflections . And so it happened to ...
... ancient fashion , ornamental rather than necessary . At the first great shake which such a language gets , after it is well furnished with prepositions , there will most likely be a great shedding of inflections . And so it happened to ...
Pagina 40
... ancient grammar , which rested almost entirely on literary culture . The leading men in the state having no interest in the vernacular , its cultivation fell immediately into neglect . The chief of the Saxon clergy deposed or removed ...
... ancient grammar , which rested almost entirely on literary culture . The leading men in the state having no interest in the vernacular , its cultivation fell immediately into neglect . The chief of the Saxon clergy deposed or removed ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon become BISHOP called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer cloth compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect distinction English language example expression Extra fcap Faery Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words function German Gothic Gothic languages grammar 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 philology phonetic phrasal phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronoun pronunciation reader relics rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon Second Edition seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces translated verb vowel W. W. Skeat writing written þat