The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 24
... whole Anglian vernacular literature should have perished in the ravages of the Danes upon the North- humbrian monasteries . Of the existence of such a native literature there is no room for doubt . Bæda tells us of such ; and he himself ...
... whole Anglian vernacular literature should have perished in the ravages of the Danes upon the North- humbrian monasteries . Of the existence of such a native literature there is no room for doubt . Bæda tells us of such ; and he himself ...
Pagina 33
... whole weight of the function falls on the preposition . The inflection then lives on as a familiar heirloom in the language , an ancient fashion , ornamental rather than necessary . At the first great shake which such a language gets ...
... whole weight of the function falls on the preposition . The inflection then lives on as a familiar heirloom in the language , an ancient fashion , ornamental rather than necessary . At the first great shake which such a language gets ...
Pagina 35
... whole series of substitutions successively superseding each other have occupied the place of an old Saxon word . The Saxon witodlice was in the middle ages represented by verily , and in modern times by certainly . The verb gehyrsumian ...
... whole series of substitutions successively superseding each other have occupied the place of an old Saxon word . The Saxon witodlice was in the middle ages represented by verily , and in modern times by certainly . The verb gehyrsumian ...
Pagina 36
... whole , except the formation of the simple plural . In application it has altered ; for in Saxon times man was as applicable to women as to men , whereas now it is limited to one sex . In convertible use it has suffered greatly ; for ...
... whole , except the formation of the simple plural . In application it has altered ; for in Saxon times man was as applicable to women as to men , whereas now it is limited to one sex . In convertible use it has suffered greatly ; for ...
Pagina 39
... whole on his feet , he who before was borne on bier to church . One of the least changed is the preposition TO . This will mostly stand in an English translation out of Saxon : ' And se halga him cwæp to , ponne pu cymst to Winceastre ...
... whole on his feet , he who before was borne on bier to church . One of the least changed is the preposition TO . This will mostly stand in an English translation out of Saxon : ' And se halga him cwæp to , ponne pu cymst to Winceastre ...
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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