The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... fact that there is or has been such a con- sonantal reciprocity between two languages , we have ob- tained 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 con- sonantal reciprocity between two languages , we have ob- tained the strongest proof of their relationship . There are traces of this kind between the English on the one hand and the Classical ...
Pagina 5
... fact that our language is of one and the same strain with the Greek and Latin , that is to say , it is one of the Indo - European family . It will be easy to discover a great number of examples which lie outside the above analogy . But ...
... fact that our language is of one and the same strain with the Greek and Latin , that is to say , it is one of the Indo - European family . It will be easy to discover a great number of examples which lie outside the above analogy . But ...
Pagina 7
... 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 English clusters round a Low Dutch centre ...
... 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 English clusters round a Low Dutch centre ...
Pagina 11
... 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 OF THE ENGLISH ...
... 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 OF THE ENGLISH ...
Pagina 15
... fact has been said and written , to prove that we are Scandinavians , and to draw us over the middle border . But it generally resolves itself into a number of points of similarity rather than into an essential and ancient similitude ...
... fact has been said and written , to prove that we are Scandinavians , and to draw us over the middle border . But it generally resolves itself into a number of points of similarity rather than into an essential and ancient similitude ...
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