The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 5
... once been more numerous than they now are . Casualties happen to words as to all mortal products : and in the course of time their forms get defaced . The German language offers many examples of this . If I want to understand the ...
... once been more numerous than they now are . Casualties happen to words as to all mortal products : and in the course of time their forms get defaced . The German language offers many examples of this . If I want to understand the ...
Pagina 33
... once prepositional and inflec- tional . This indicates a transition - state of the language ; a time in which the inflections are no longer what once they were , self - sufficient . Prepositions are brought to their aid , and very soon ...
... once prepositional and inflec- tional . This indicates a transition - state of the language ; a time in which the inflections are no longer what once they were , self - sufficient . Prepositions are brought to their aid , and very soon ...
Pagina 45
... once extinct , there was no central or standard language . The French language in some respects supplied the place of a standard language , as the medium of intercourse between persons in the best ranks of society . The native speech ...
... once extinct , there was no central or standard language . The French language in some respects supplied the place of a standard language , as the medium of intercourse between persons in the best ranks of society . The native speech ...
Pagina 46
... once that it was not the work of any one year or even of a few years . It must be regarded as the literary hobby of the whole life of Layamon the priest , who lived at Areley Kings , on the west bank of the Severn 46 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
... once that it was not the work of any one year or even of a few years . It must be regarded as the literary hobby of the whole life of Layamon the priest , who lived at Areley Kings , on the west bank of the Severn 46 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
Pagina 67
... once in full vigour , and was acknowledged on all hands without dispute . The study of the previous age does not make us acquainted with a general process of convergency towards this result , but rather in- dicates that each locality ...
... once in full vigour , and was acknowledged on all hands without dispute . The study of the previous age does not make us acquainted with a general process of convergency towards this result , but rather in- dicates that each locality ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb Alfred Tennyson alliteration ancient Anglo-Saxon appears Ballad Society become belongs called century character Chaucer collocation compound conjunction consonant dialect distinction Dutch elder emphasis English language example expression fact Faerie Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guage habit Hebrew Henry VI illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection King Latin Layamon letter literature means metre mind modern English native nature noun observed onomatopoetic original Ormulum orthography participle person philological phrasal phrase plural poet poetry preposition present preterite pronominal pronoun pronunciation Randle Cotgrave reader retained rhyme rhythm Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare signifies sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantive syllable symbol-verb symbolic words syntax thing thou tion tone traces translation verb verbal vowel William Cowper William Wordsworth writing written þæt þat