The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 45
... given to dis- tinguish periods in the history of language , that it is intended for the convenience of writer and reader , for distinctness of arrangement and as an aid to the memory , rather OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 45.
... given to dis- tinguish periods in the history of language , that it is intended for the convenience of writer and reader , for distinctness of arrangement and as an aid to the memory , rather OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 45.
Pagina 46
... reader an immediate com- mand of the contents of this voluminous work . There is no direct intimation of the date at which it was written , but the editor has fixed on 1205 , for reasons which appear con- clusive . But we have only to ...
... reader an immediate com- mand of the contents of this voluminous work . There is no direct intimation of the date at which it was written , but the editor has fixed on 1205 , for reasons which appear con- clusive . But we have only to ...
Pagina 61
... reader might pass them for pure Saxon . Not so in the Romance of King Alexander . The two languages do not yet appear blended together , but only mixed bilingually . The following lines will illustrate this crude mixture of French with ...
... reader might pass them for pure Saxon . Not so in the Romance of King Alexander . The two languages do not yet appear blended together , but only mixed bilingually . The following lines will illustrate this crude mixture of French with ...
Pagina 65
... reader . We will modernise a specimen to serve as a guide to the rest . selected as recording the linguistic condition of the country . And the Normans could not then speak any speech but their own . And they spoke French as they did at ...
... reader . We will modernise a specimen to serve as a guide to the rest . selected as recording the linguistic condition of the country . And the Normans could not then speak any speech but their own . And they spoke French as they did at ...
Pagina 99
... reader which sense he was to attach to the sound . This may be called the syllabic stage . The third stage is where each figure represents only a consonant or a vowel , which we call the alphabetic system . Some national systems of ...
... reader which sense he was to attach to the sound . This may be called the syllabic stage . The third stage is where each figure represents only a consonant or a vowel , which we call the alphabetic system . Some national systems of ...
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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