The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 62
... already noticed are in remarkably pure English . The old inflections are nearly all gone , and so far the language has suffered alteration , but the vocabulary remains almost unmixed with French . But in the Romance of King Alexander ...
... already noticed are in remarkably pure English . The old inflections are nearly all gone , and so far the language has suffered alteration , but the vocabulary remains almost unmixed with French . But in the Romance of King Alexander ...
Pagina 66
... Already , before 1200 , the famous Abbot Sampson , of Bury St. Edmunds , was thought to have said a good and memorable thing when he gave as his reason for preferring one man to a farm rather than another , that his man could not speak ...
... Already , before 1200 , the famous Abbot Sampson , of Bury St. Edmunds , was thought to have said a good and memorable thing when he gave as his reason for preferring one man to a farm rather than another , that his man could not speak ...
Pagina 72
... already recognised as more fashionable . The following is the modern English of this unique proclamation . ¶ Henry , through God's help , King in England , Lord in Ireland , Duke in Normandy , in Aquitain , and Earl in Anjou , sends ...
... already recognised as more fashionable . The following is the modern English of this unique proclamation . ¶ Henry , through God's help , King in England , Lord in Ireland , Duke in Normandy , in Aquitain , and Earl in Anjou , sends ...
Pagina 83
... already noticed . It is a very expressive feature in regard to the early relations of English with French . Words run much in couples , the one being English and the other French ; and it is plain that the habit was caused by the ...
... already noticed . It is a very expressive feature in regard to the early relations of English with French . Words run much in couples , the one being English and the other French ; and it is plain that the habit was caused by the ...
Pagina 95
... the original sense of that word . It is true we have no surviving instance of a Saxon bonig , but it may be reasonably surmised that the word was already in Saxon times spread just as it is now , only in CONCLUSION . 95.
... the original sense of that word . It is true we have no surviving instance of a Saxon bonig , but it may be reasonably surmised that the word was already in Saxon times spread just as it is now , only in CONCLUSION . 95.
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accent adjectival adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon become BISHOP called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer cloth compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect distinction English language example expression Extra fcap Faery Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words function German Gothic Gothic languages grammar Greek guttural habit haue Hebrew High Dutch illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection Italian John John Keble King Latin Layamon letter literature Lord means mind modern Mosogothic native nature noun observe old Saxon original Ormulum orthography participle person philology phonetic phrasal phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronoun pronunciation reader relics rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon Second Edition seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces translated verb vowel W. W. Skeat writing written þat