The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 1
... habits of speech . Further , the rules of grammar are justified by reference to the logical sense : the laws of philology have to be established by external comparison and induction . Thus grammar is a local and internal study of ...
... habits of speech . Further , the rules of grammar are justified by reference to the logical sense : the laws of philology have to be established by external comparison and induction . Thus grammar is a local and internal study of ...
Pagina 9
... habit of getting a sort of a passive by prefixing the reflexive pronoun se . Thus in French marier is to marry ( active ) , of parents who marry their children ; but if you have to express to marry in the sense of to get married or to ...
... habit of getting a sort of a passive by prefixing the reflexive pronoun se . Thus in French marier is to marry ( active ) , of parents who marry their children ; but if you have to express to marry in the sense of to get married or to ...
Pagina 17
... habit of recent times to use the term Saxon ' as a 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 ...
... habit of recent times to use the term Saxon ' as a 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 ...
Pagina 22
... habits of speaking Latin were almost universal , and they appeal to the rude inscribed stones of the earlier centuries which are found in Wales , and which are in a Latin base enough to be attri- buted to illiterate stonemasons . These ...
... habits of speaking Latin were almost universal , and they appeal to the rude inscribed stones of the earlier centuries which are found in Wales , and which are in a Latin base enough to be attri- buted to illiterate stonemasons . These ...
Pagina 29
... habit to suppose that this phenomenon is sufficiently accounted for by the introduction of scholars from other countries who helped to translate the most esteemed books into Saxon . So the reign of Alfred is apt to get paralleled with ...
... habit to suppose that this phenomenon is sufficiently accounted for by the introduction of scholars from other countries who helped to translate the most esteemed books into Saxon . So the reign of Alfred is apt to get paralleled with ...
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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