The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 36
... habit , in application , and in convertible use . In grammatical habit it has altered ; for in Saxon it had a genitive mannes , a dative men , an ( archaic ) accusative mannan , a plural men , a genitive plural manna , and a dative ...
... habit , in application , and in convertible use . In grammatical habit it has altered ; for in Saxon it had a genitive mannes , a dative men , an ( archaic ) accusative mannan , a plural men , a genitive plural manna , and a dative ...
Pagina 56
... habits of our Norman- French rulers is aptly commemorated in the fact that up to the present day the English terms for games of chance are of French extraction . Dice were seen in every hall , and were then called by the same name as ...
... habits of our Norman- French rulers is aptly commemorated in the fact that up to the present day the English terms for games of chance are of French extraction . Dice were seen in every hall , and were then called by the same name as ...
Pagina 59
... might naturally be supposed to arise out of the neighbourhood of two creatures not only unlike in their tastes and habits but unequally endowed with gifts and accomplishments . The following picture of the LITERATURE OF THE TRANSITION . 59.
... might naturally be supposed to arise out of the neighbourhood of two creatures not only unlike in their tastes and habits but unequally endowed with gifts and accomplishments . The following picture of the LITERATURE OF THE TRANSITION . 59.
Pagina 68
... habit of mind . It is the organic completeness of a language that recommends it for grammatical study , but the philo- logical interest is totally different . In every language , how- ever perfect , philology sees a mass of relics ...
... habit of mind . It is the organic completeness of a language that recommends it for grammatical study , but the philo- logical interest is totally different . In every language , how- ever perfect , philology sees a mass of relics ...
Pagina 69
... habits of speech , and that the divergence was grow- ing wider . Now there appeared a mature form of English which was generally received . The two writers of the fourteenth century who most powerfully display this language are Chaucer ...
... habits of speech , and that the divergence was grow- ing wider . Now there appeared a mature form of English which was generally received . The two writers of the fourteenth century who most powerfully display this language are Chaucer ...
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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