The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 17
... distinction for the early period of our history and language and literature , and to reserve the term ' English ' for the later period . There is some degree of literary impropriety in this , because the Saxons called their own language ...
... distinction for the early period of our history and language and literature , and to reserve the term ' English ' for the later period . There is some degree of literary impropriety in this , because the Saxons called their own language ...
Pagina 36
... distinction of the initial capital , which in German belongs to substantives : thus , substantive Mann , pronoun In Saxon ( towards the close of the period ) the distinction of the n is sometimes seen , with a preference of the vowel a ...
... distinction of the initial capital , which in German belongs to substantives : thus , substantive Mann , pronoun In Saxon ( towards the close of the period ) the distinction of the n is sometimes seen , with a preference of the vowel a ...
Pagina 76
... distinctions here to be pointed out . The best course for the student is to master a particular piece , and Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is the piece which unites a greater variety of interest in proportion to its extent ...
... distinctions here to be pointed out . The best course for the student is to master a particular piece , and Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is the piece which unites a greater variety of interest in proportion to its extent ...
Pagina 96
... distinction of the latter is not that it took in more French words , or even that in many words it blended French and English features together till they were undistinguishable ; but , that the sound , the rhythm , the modulation , the ...
... distinction of the latter is not that it took in more French words , or even that in many words it blended French and English features together till they were undistinguishable ; but , that the sound , the rhythm , the modulation , the ...
Pagina 105
... distinction at all or with very ill - observed discrimination , until they were both ultimately banished by the general adoption of the TH . This change was not completely established until the very close of the fifteenth century . And ...
... distinction at all or with very ill - observed discrimination , until they were both ultimately banished by the general adoption of the TH . This change was not completely established until the very close of the fifteenth century . And ...
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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