Elementary Lessons in Historical English Grammar Containing Accidence and Word-formationMacmillan, 1880 - 254 sider |
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... Chaucer has been wrongfully accused of cor- rupting the written language of his day , by fresh im- portation of Romance words . In his translations he doubtless was compelled to employ many new terms for ideas and things , as yet ...
... Chaucer has been wrongfully accused of cor- rupting the written language of his day , by fresh im- portation of Romance words . In his translations he doubtless was compelled to employ many new terms for ideas and things , as yet ...
Side 15
... Chaucer in his various works have become obsolete . " It is a great but very widely spread error to suppose that the influx of French words in the fourteenth century was due alone to poetry and other branches of pure literature . The ...
... Chaucer in his various works have become obsolete . " It is a great but very widely spread error to suppose that the influx of French words in the fourteenth century was due alone to poetry and other branches of pure literature . The ...
Side 16
... Chaucer's time , having been replaced by Romance and Latin terms . Influence of Norman - French upon the Grammar of English . 30. No language gives up its grammar and adopts a new system of borrowed inflexions for its nouns , adjectives ...
... Chaucer's time , having been replaced by Romance and Latin terms . Influence of Norman - French upon the Grammar of English . 30. No language gives up its grammar and adopts a new system of borrowed inflexions for its nouns , adjectives ...
Side 18
... ( Chaucer ) for Old English gydin ; and the modern forms bond - age , till - age , hindr - ance , knave - ry , wondr - ous , ' & c . Many 33. Some substitutes for inflexion came into use . The preposition of replaced the genitive -s ; the ...
... ( Chaucer ) for Old English gydin ; and the modern forms bond - age , till - age , hindr - ance , knave - ry , wondr - ous , ' & c . Many 33. Some substitutes for inflexion came into use . The preposition of replaced the genitive -s ; the ...
Side 21
... Chaucer rhymes gladnésse with distresse . But an attempt was made even as early as Chaucer's time to make borrowed words conform to the native accentuation , and in the " Canterbury Tales " we find mórtal , témpest , & c . as well as ...
... Chaucer rhymes gladnésse with distresse . But an attempt was made even as early as Chaucer's time to make borrowed words conform to the native accentuation , and in the " Canterbury Tales " we find mórtal , témpest , & c . as well as ...
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adjectives adverbs alphabet become blind-e Book called Cambridge century we find Chaucer College compounds conjugation consonant Crown 8vo Cursor Cursor Mundi dative declension derivatives Edition ELEMENTARY Extra fcap fcap feminine Flat fourteenth century gender genitive German GRAMMAR Greek Grimm's Law Gutturals Husbondrie Illustrations indefinite INDICATIVE MOOD inflexions language Latin letters M.E. we find marks Masc masculine Modern English modern French Neut neuter nominative Norman-French Nouns ending numerous O.E. Plays occurs Old English older oldest English originally passive participle PAST PASS past tense period person Piers Plowman Plur plural prefix prepositions Pres Professor pronouns replaced revised Robert of Brunne Romance root School scip-e Shakespeare Sharp Sing singular sixteenth century sometimes sounds Spenser steorr-an ster strong verbs subjunctive subjunctive mood substantives suffix syllable thirteenth century thou TREATISE Trevisa verbal vowel vowel change weak verbs Wicliffe words
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