The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 41
... inflection- system could not live through this trying period . Just as we accumulate superfluities about us in prosperity , but in adversity we get rid of them as encumbrances , and we like to travel light when we have only our own legs ...
... inflection- system could not live through this trying period . Just as we accumulate superfluities about us in prosperity , but in adversity we get rid of them as encumbrances , and we like to travel light when we have only our own legs ...
Pagina 66
... are struck with their diversity and the absence of any signs of convergency to a common type . The only feature which they agree in with a sort of growing consent , is in the dropping of the old inflections and the 66 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
... are struck with their diversity and the absence of any signs of convergency to a common type . The only feature which they agree in with a sort of growing consent , is in the dropping of the old inflections and the 66 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
Pagina 67
John Earle. is in the dropping of the old inflections and the severance of connection with the old Anglo - Saxon accidence . Among the most tenacious of these inflections was the genitive plural of substantives in -ena ( Anglo - Saxon ) ...
John Earle. is in the dropping of the old inflections and the severance of connection with the old Anglo - Saxon accidence . Among the most tenacious of these inflections was the genitive plural of substantives in -ena ( Anglo - Saxon ) ...
Pagina 178
... inflected language like Latin . On the other hand , those ideas can best be perfected through the medium of a language with few inflections , like English , For in studying grammar through the English language , we purge our minds of ...
... inflected language like Latin . On the other hand , those ideas can best be perfected through the medium of a language with few inflections , like English , For in studying grammar through the English language , we purge our minds of ...
Pagina 179
... inflection , by which its grammatical relations are limited and deter- mined . And as the second and third of these cases will be found to melt into one , the result is that all words are induced to be of such and such a part of speech ...
... inflection , by which its grammatical relations are limited and deter- mined . And as the second and third of these cases will be found to melt into one , the result is that all words are induced to be of such and such a part of speech ...
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