1876, ISBN: 9780217519373

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Article IV.?ON THE TERMINOLOGY OF THE PERIODS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. No one who has paid any attention whatever to the study of our earlier tongue can have failed to notice the controversy that has been for some time going on in regard to the use of the word English. It is hardly necessary to observe that the subject having been elevated to a dignity much beyond its real importance has had imported into it all the virulence, not to say vituperation, with which matters of little moment are usually discussed and it is not impossible that this particular essay may turn out to be a fair illustration of the truth of this very remark. In the sixteenth century a revival of the study of our early language began, and was carried forward with considerable activity in the seventeenth. After wavering for a time between Saxon, English-Saxon, and Anglo-Saxon, scholars generally adopted the last named term as the one best suited to designate the oldest form of our speech. It recommended itself on the score both of fitness and of convenience. It recognized the claims of the two leading Teutonic tribes, the Angles and the Saxons, which had subjugated Britain. It was a convenient designation for a period in the history of the language distinct from any that has since existed distinct not simply in the form of the words, but in the large majority of the words themselves distinct still more in having the full inflections and complicated syntax of a synthetic language, as opposed to the simple structure of an analytic tongue like Modern English. No one who knew anything about the subject at all? and it was hardly worth while to take into account the opinions of those who did not know anything about it?ever thought of claiming that the two tribes which conquered England ever spoke of their spee...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

2010, ISBN: 9780217519373

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1876, ISBN: 0217519377