history of the english speaking peoples pdf

... 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 ... to suppose that Old English did, because of the weight of the spelling evidence and the difficulty of postulating a plausible series of sound changes to produce the Middle English forms if the short diphthongs are ... 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, an analysis of the function of these...

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... Whereas the volumes concerned with the English language in England are organised on a chronological basis, the English of the rest of the world is treated geographically to emphasise the spread of English ... in the areas of morphology, lexis or syntax either generally or in relation to the charting of dialects. 1.2 The study of Middle English since the Second World War Since the Second World War the ... compared with the majority of other European languages; in phonology the number of diphthongs as against the number of vowels in English English is notably high. In other words, synchronically, English...

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... in the pronouns (singular vs dual vs plural) to singular vs plural, loss of case marking, the subjunctive and so on. The most marked characteristic of the evolution of English morphology from the ... this. The treatment of morphology, however, will be rather different: for the bulk of the fifteenth-century developments are of a piece with earlier ones, and English morphology by the 1480s ... radical modification of the borrowed forms, the sources tend to be other dialects of English (see Lass & Wright 1986). The peculiar type of borrowing involved in /oi ui/ and the fact that it...

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... On the south of the Islamic empire the migrations of the peoples brought to our islands the Maori race, who made them their permanent home. On the north, the Christian faith took firm hold of ... advancement of His glory and the salvation of the heathen nations in those distant parts of the globe by men of character and principle? On the contrary, He takes men from the dregs of society, the ... altogether or left in charge of a shepherd. Many of the proprietors of these sheep stations had been liberal supporters of the Church, and their ruin spelt disaster to the authorities of the...

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... Economic History of the English Poor Law excess of the marginal product of labor, the effect of poor relief on migration was small. Chapter 7 examines the effect of the New Poor Law on the agricul- tural ... revisionist analysis of the Poor Law began in 1963 with the publi- cation of Mark Blaug's classic paper " ;The Myth of the Old Poor Law and the Making of the New." The work of Blaug (1963; ... loss of land. Chapter 2 surveys the historiography of the Old Poor Law, from the beginning of the traditional critique of outdoor relief in the late eighteenth century to the development of the...

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... to the +root+ of the word, which was intelligible to both of them, and let the inflexions slide, or take care of themselves. The more the English and Danes mixed with each other, the oftener they ... against them in a Litany of the time "From the incursions of the Northmen, good Lord, deliver us!" In spite of the resistance of the English, the Danes had, before the end of the ninth ... as +Apennine+. 8. +The Second Keltic Element.+ The Normans came from Scandinavia early in the tenth century, and wrested the valley of the Seine out of the hands of Charles the Simple, the then king of the...

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... ignore the infinitive the alternation would be the same as in drifan, despite the fact that the original post-vocalic consonant was in the case of the former *[b], in the case of the latter ... 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 ... declined like word, they need not be discussed. The neuters, like the masculines, are further examples of the simplification of the declensional system. But the motivation for the shift was not...

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... method of representing the different causations of syncope and apocope. 3.4 Most introductions to Old English give a good overview of the principal features of Old English morphology, and of these ... flights. where the Latin is Scipio p/urima bella gessit ' Scipio many wars waged'. In View Of the later history of the progressive in English, and the replacement of the BE + ende ... whether this is a result of the Latin or of the OE; however, when the two are distinctly different, we may assume that we have fairly clear evidence of OE rather than of Latin structure. Where the...

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... represents the exact words of the reported proposition, and when the subjects of the main clause and of the complement are the same. It is only occasionally absent if the complement represents the words ... Jim to paint the kitchen = 'She expected that Jim would paint the kitchen'. If the subject of the lower verb is co-referential with the subject of the higher verb, then there is no ... for-that they say these words PT they close hiera modes earan ongean 6a godcundan lare their soul's ears against that divine teaching (CP 45.337.21) But the reason they say these words is that they...

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... Only the meaning of a lexical item of the donor language is transferred to the receptor language, when either: (a) the meaning of some lexical item of the donor language influences the meaning of ... the kinsmen): ' And then they (K) offered their kinsmen that they might depart unscathed. And they (E) said that the same offer had been made to their (K) comrades, who had been with the ... with the king before. Then said they (E) that they (E) regarded it [the offer] not a whit more than " This translation is preceded by the comment: &apos ;The poverty of the English language in...

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... Marchand 1969:15fT.). The basic criterion used here is the derived status of the determinatum and the function of the determinant as one of the arguments of the underlying predicate. 2 Regular compounds (a) The ... monostratal because of the nature of the OE texts, which all come from the same type of social group and represent only the written language. At the same time this limits the dimension of& apos; attitude' ... together with other types of zero-derivation. Since the explicit morphological structure of such formations did not agree with their function, they were often reformed by either changing the...

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... additions to the Rushworth Gospels (Ral). As is the case for Northumbria, no East Midland texts apparently survive the period of the Viking invasions of England. Since the texts of the period of the Mercian ... circle. The energy of our Germanic forbears derived from the discovery of the regularity of sound change; ours, from the correlation of patterns in the ubiquitous variation of living languages to the ... trace the history of the spread or decline of the selected features. They also hope to explain those changes by relating them to contact among speakers of different varieties, to the mobility of significant...

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... Apollonius of Tyre and some saints' lives. The high period of prose came towards the end of the tenth century, with the work of the homilist ./Elfric, the acknowledged master of Old English ... ways, the traditional techniques of verse composition both discourage the use of a variety of verbs and deprive them of emphasis when they are used. One further manifestation of this is the use of ... in the course of the Anglo-Saxon period (cf. Shippey 1972). If, on the other hand, the specialised language was the gradual creation of individual poets in a literate culture, as the evidence of...

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