The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... early migration westward is found in the Dartmoor Tors . It is to this sort of play upon the gamut or scale of consonants , a play which is kept up between kindred dialects , that Grimm , when he had reduced it to a sort of law , gave ...
... early migration westward is found in the Dartmoor Tors . It is to this sort of play upon the gamut or scale of consonants , a play which is kept up between kindred dialects , that Grimm , when he had reduced it to a sort of law , gave ...
Pagina 4
... early language was remarkably poor in words beginning with P. Leav- ing then the labials or lip - consonants which have afforded us all the instances so far quoted , let us try the tooth- consonants or dentals . If the Greek or Latin ...
... early language was remarkably poor in words beginning with P. Leav- ing then the labials or lip - consonants which have afforded us all the instances so far quoted , let us try the tooth- consonants or dentals . If the Greek or Latin ...
Pagina 6
... earliest literary traces go back to the fourth century , and appear in the villages of Dacia , in lands which slope to the Danube ; where the country is now called Wallachia . It is from this region that we have the Moso - Gothic ...
... earliest literary traces go back to the fourth century , and appear in the villages of Dacia , in lands which slope to the Danube ; where the country is now called Wallachia . It is from this region that we have the Moso - Gothic ...
Pagina 11
... 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 OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . II.
... 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 OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . II.
Pagina 12
John Earle. early cultivation ; and this has made it possible for us to follow back the traces of our language into a far higher relative antiquity than that in which the languages of Greece and Rome first begin to emerge into historic ...
John Earle. early cultivation ; and this has made it possible for us to follow back the traces of our language into a far higher relative antiquity than that in which the languages of Greece and Rome first begin to emerge into historic ...
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