The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 117
... function added to the former . It succeeded to the place of an ancient G - initial , which was in a state of decay ... functions in a single letter . In old Scots it was retained in the form of z , as in the following , where year is ...
... function added to the former . It succeeded to the place of an ancient G - initial , which was in a state of decay ... functions in a single letter . In old Scots it was retained in the form of z , as in the following , where year is ...
Pagina 167
... functional . We must be content to play the part of those wise men who pronounced the fossils to be but stones , and we must treat these words as mere interjectional missiles . Our first example shall be borrowed from the manners and OF ...
... functional . We must be content to play the part of those wise men who pronounced the fossils to be but stones , and we must treat these words as mere interjectional missiles . Our first example shall be borrowed from the manners and OF ...
Pagina 174
... functions . For in this modern form it is only adapted to be a response to prayer , or the expression of some desire . There are other sorts of assent and affirmation for which AMEN is serviceable , besides that single one of desire or ...
... functions . For in this modern form it is only adapted to be a response to prayer , or the expression of some desire . There are other sorts of assent and affirmation for which AMEN is serviceable , besides that single one of desire or ...
Pagina 178
... function which the word discharges in such and such a context , and not a character innate in the word or inseparable from it . Thus the word save is a verb , whether infinitive to save , or indicative I save , or imperative save me but ...
... function which the word discharges in such and such a context , and not a character innate in the word or inseparable from it . Thus the word save is a verb , whether infinitive to save , or indicative I save , or imperative save me but ...
Pagina 179
... function as noun or verb or adverb ticketed upon it . But in English the words of fixed habit are comparatively few . In a general way it may be said that the pronouns are so in all languages . Yet even this group , of all groups the ...
... function as noun or verb or adverb ticketed upon it . But in English the words of fixed habit are comparatively few . In a general way it may be said that the pronouns are so in all languages . Yet even this group , of all groups the ...
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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