The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 5 Part 8 pps

... occupation of the Cape from 17 95 (with a brief return to Dutch control in 180 3-6); the arrival of the English 182 0 settlers, frontier warfare with the AmaXhosa, the emancipation of the slaves and the ... ' She told them that we were agents of the system when her neighbours went to tell of the screams, the leaders said it was the work of the strug...

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... rise of Scots to the position of official language of the kingdom, and then its gradual decline, along with that of Gaelic in the Highlands. The introduction of Introduction 1 In chapter 7 the ... April 1 988 to the Royal Society of St George, for example, the former Member of Parliament Enoch Powell affirmed the permanent claim of the English to Englis...

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... disturbances of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most notably the Montrose Wars and the Jacobite uprisings of 17 15 and 17 45. With the vicious repression of the Highlands after the defeat of the ... that of southern English is the presence of a front rounded vowel, the reflex of OE /o:/. The phonetic quality of this vowel may have been higher t...

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... appointed the Official Language Commission on 7 June 1 955 under the chairmanship of B. G. Kher ( 188 8-1 957 ). The commission was charged with the duty to make recommendations to the President of the ... concerning the following points: (1) the progressive use of the Hindi language for the official purposes of the Union; (2) restrictions on the English...

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... (ed.) (1 85 6 -7). Extracts from the journal of Thomas Dineley. The journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society New ser. 1:143-6, 170 -88 ; 2 (1 85 8 -9), 22-32, 55 -6. Short, ... dependence in broadcast language. English World-wide 5: 55 - 85 . McBurney, S. ( 188 7). Colonial pronunciation. Press (Christchurch) 5 October 188 7. (...

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... acted 159 2, published 1600. Text as in The Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. R. B. McKerrow, Oxford: Blackwell, 1 9 58 : III 283 . 45. From The Arte of Rhetorique, first published 155 3. Text as in the 1 58 5 edn, ed. ... Greer et al. (1 988 ) and Smith (1 983 ) and discussed by Capp (19 85 ) , Beilin (1 987 ) and Hill (19 85 ) . 7.2.1 The standard accounts of the classical inherit...

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... of Christianity amongst the Anglo-Saxons, therefore, were of the highest importance for the history of the language. From the death of Bede in 7 35 to the reign of Alfred in the last quarter of ... mostly by the activities of 12 Contents 8 LITERARY LANGUAGE Malcolm R. Godden 490 8. 1 Introduction 490 8. 2 Poetry 491 8. 3 Prose 51 3 Further readi...

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... aspect of the diphthongal system is uncertain and subject to fierce debate and the most controversial of these are discussed in §3.3.3 in the context of the development of the language. The situation ... the meaning of morphological elements is the domain of syntax. In contrast to the forms of a language which, after all, can be described rather objectively...

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... also for the later history of the language. In terms of Old English, the new phonemes /J,tf,d3/ were introduced, as well as [9] as an allophone of /x/. The incidence and distribution of /]/ was ... Mitchell 19 85 : §§349 -51 for some typically sceptical remarks on the topic). Whatever the rights of the matter, the morphology of this pronoun followed, entir...

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