The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina vii
... Period 44 54 Second Period . · 58 • 69 . 83 90 • • 99 . · 143 § Appendix on Spelling - Reform · 178 CHAPTER III . Of Interjections . § 1. Natural Interjections § 2. Historical Interjections 186 • 189 . 196 · • 204 CHAPTER IV . Of the ...
... Period 44 54 Second Period . · 58 • 69 . 83 90 • • 99 . · 143 § Appendix on Spelling - Reform · 178 CHAPTER III . Of Interjections . § 1. Natural Interjections § 2. Historical Interjections 186 • 189 . 196 · • 204 CHAPTER IV . Of the ...
Pagina 17
... 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 Englisc . On this ground ...
... 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 Englisc . On this ground ...
Pagina 19
... period bore the title of DISC - PEGN , dish - thane . When we consider that there was much originally in com- mon between the Latin and the Keltic , it is no matter of surprise that after so long a period we should find it difficult to ...
... period bore the title of DISC - PEGN , dish - thane . When we consider that there was much originally in com- mon between the Latin and the Keltic , it is no matter of surprise that after so long a period we should find it difficult to ...
Pagina 27
... period . Wessex , or the country of the West Saxons , becomes the arena of our narrative henceforth , and the Anglian does not claim notice again until the four- teenth century , when that dialect had shaped itself into a new and ...
... period . Wessex , or the country of the West Saxons , becomes the arena of our narrative henceforth , and the Anglian does not claim notice again until the four- teenth century , when that dialect had shaped itself into a new and ...
Pagina 28
... period of Northumbrian pre - eminence . Aldhelm is the first great name in southern literature . He died in A.D. 709. He translated the Psalms of David into his native tongue , and composed popular hymns to drive out the old pagan songs ...
... period of Northumbrian pre - eminence . Aldhelm is the first great name in southern literature . He died in A.D. 709. He translated the Psalms of David into his native tongue , and composed popular hymns to drive out the old pagan songs ...
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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