The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 9
... French 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 ...
... French 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 ...
Pagina 44
... French must have existed in the Norman period in every town and district of England . It was a bilingual condition which lasted down to the middle of the fourteenth century , when a mixed English language broke forth and took the lead ...
... French must have existed in the Norman period in every town and district of England . It was a bilingual condition which lasted down to the middle of the fourteenth century , when a mixed English language broke forth and took the lead ...
Pagina 53
... French was now working in the English language . The long story of the Brut is told in lines which affect the ancient style ; but the style is chaotic , and abounds in accidental decorations , like a thing constructed out of ruins . In ...
... French was now working in the English language . The long story of the Brut is told in lines which affect the ancient style ; but the style is chaotic , and abounds in accidental decorations , like a thing constructed out of ruins . In ...
Pagina 54
... French . We now approach the time when for a century and a half French held a recognised position as the language of education , of society , of business , and of administration . Long before 1250 we get traces of the documentary use of ...
... French . We now approach the time when for a century and a half French held a recognised position as the language of education , of society , of business , and of administration . Long before 1250 we get traces of the documentary use of ...
Pagina 55
... French period of our history . To jape is to jest coarsely ; a japer is a low buffoon ; japery is buffoonery ; and jape - worthy is ignominiously ridiculous . To jangle is to prate or babble ; a jangler is a man - prater , and a ...
... French period of our history . To jape is to jest coarsely ; a japer is a low buffoon ; japery is buffoonery ; and jape - worthy is ignominiously ridiculous . To jangle is to prate or babble ; a jangler is a man - prater , and a ...
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