The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 1-5 di 87
Pagina 4
... fact that there is or has been such a consonantal reciprocity between two languages , we have obtained the strongest proof of their relationship . There are traces of this kind between the English on the one hand and the Classical ...
... fact that there is or has been such a consonantal reciprocity between two languages , we have obtained the strongest proof of their relationship . There are traces of this kind between the English on the one hand and the Classical ...
Pagina 9
... fact produced a new language , and a language which , from external circumstances , seems likely to become the parent of a new strain of languages . But all the out- growth and exuberance of the English language clusters round a Low ...
... fact produced a new language , and a language which , from external circumstances , seems likely to become the parent of a new strain of languages . But all the out- growth and exuberance of the English language clusters round a Low ...
Pagina 14
... fact that we can trace the written history of our English language within this island for the space of twelve hundred years . Christianity was the cause of its early cultivation ; and this has made it possible for us to follow back the ...
... fact that we can trace the written history of our English language within this island for the space of twelve hundred years . Christianity was the cause of its early cultivation ; and this has made it possible for us to follow back the ...
Pagina 24
... fact the permanent memorial is the name and works of Bæda , who died in 735 , after having seen the decline of the greatness of his people . Canterbury was the metropolis of Christianity , but the kingdom of Northumbria was its most ...
... fact the permanent memorial is the name and works of Bæda , who died in 735 , after having seen the decline of the greatness of his people . Canterbury was the metropolis of Christianity , but the kingdom of Northumbria was its most ...
Pagina 26
... fact that it is after the same model as their name for the Almighty . The latter was ALWALDA , the All - wielding . So Bretwalda was the wielder of Britain , or the Emperor of all the States in Britain . 26. The culture of Northumbria ...
... fact that it is after the same model as their name for the Almighty . The latter was ALWALDA , the All - wielding . So Bretwalda was the wielder of Britain , or the Emperor of all the States in Britain . 26. The culture of Northumbria ...
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
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