The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 7
... term of Low Dutch the languages of Scandinavia . The latter have very strong individualising features of their own , such as the post - positive article , and a form for the passive verb . The post - positive article is highly curious ...
... term of Low Dutch the languages of Scandinavia . The latter have very strong individualising features of their own , such as the post - positive article , and a form for the passive verb . The post - positive article is highly curious ...
Pagina 16
... term ' Saxon ' as a distinction for the early period of our history and language and literature , and to reserve the term 6 ' English ' for the later period . There is 16 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
... term ' Saxon ' as a distinction for the early period of our history and language and literature , and to reserve the term 6 ' English ' for the later period . There is 16 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
Pagina 17
... terms already in use seem bolder , and more distinct . They enable us to distinguish between Saxon and Anglian ; and they also comprise the united nation under the compound term Anglo - Saxon . As expressive of the dominant power , it ...
... terms already in use seem bolder , and more distinct . They enable us to distinguish between Saxon and Anglian ; and they also comprise the united nation under the compound term Anglo - Saxon . As expressive of the dominant power , it ...
Pagina 21
... terms husk , haw ; and more particularly cod , a word that merits a special remark . What it came to mean in the Elizabethan dramatists must here be kept apart . In Anglo - Saxon times it meant a bag , a purse or wallet . See a spirited ...
... terms husk , haw ; and more particularly cod , a word that merits a special remark . What it came to mean in the Elizabethan dramatists must here be kept apart . In Anglo - Saxon times it meant a bag , a purse or wallet . See a spirited ...
Pagina 31
... term of Saxon literature would be A.D. 1154 , the year of King Stephen's death , the last year that is chronicled in ... terms it may be said that the essence of an inflected language is , to express by composition of words that which an ...
... term of Saxon literature would be A.D. 1154 , the year of King Stephen's death , the last year that is chronicled in ... terms it may be said that the essence of an inflected language is , to express by composition of words that which an ...
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