CONTENTS.
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PART I.
GENERAL ETHNOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
CHAPTER I.
GERMANIC ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.―DATE.
CHAPTER II.
GERMANIC ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.―THE GERMANIC AREA OF THE
PARTICULAR GERMANS WHO INTRODUCED IT.―EXTRACT FROM BEDA.
CHAPTER III.
OF THE DIALECTS OF THE SAXON AREA, AND OF THE SO-CALLED OLD SAXON.
CHAPTER IV.
AFFINITIES OF THE ENGLISH WITH THE LANGUAGES OF GERMANY AND SCANDINAVIA.
CHAPTER V.
ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.―GERMANIC ELEMENTS.―THE ANGLES.
CHAPTER VI.
THE CELTIC STOCK OF LANGUAGES AND THEIR RELATIONS TO THE ENGLISH.
CHAPTER VII.
THE ANGLO-NORMAN, AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE CLASSICAL STOCK.
________________________________________PART II.
HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
CHAPTER I.
HISTORICAL AND LOGICAL ELEMENTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
CHAPTER II.
THE RELATION OF THE ENGLISH TO THE ANGLO-SAXON, AND THE
STAGES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
________________________________________PART III.
SOUNDS, LETTERS, PRONUNCIATION, SPELLING.
CHAPTER I.
GENERAL NATURE AND CERTAIN PROPERTIES OF ARTICULATE SOUNDS.
CHAPTER II.
SYSTEM OF ARTICULATE SOUNDS.
CHAPTER III.
OF CERTAIN COMBINATIONS OF ARTICULATE SOUNDS.
CHAPTER IV.
EUPHONY AND THE PERMUTATION OF LETTERS.
CHAPTER V.
ON THE FORMATION OF SYLLABLES.
CHAPTER VI.
ON QUANTITY.
CHAPTER VII.
ON ACCENT.
CHAPTER VIII.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
CHAPTER IX.
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET.
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ETYMOLOGY.
CHAPTER I.
ON THE PROVINCE OF ETYMOLOGY.
CHAPTER II.
ON GENDER.
CHAPTER III.
THE NUMBERS.
CHAPTER IV.
ON THE CASES.
CHAPTER V.
THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS.
CHAPTER VI.
ON THE TRUE REFLECTIVE PRONOUN IN THE GOTHIC LANGUAGES, AND ON ITS
ABSENCE IN ENGLISH.
CHAPTER VII.
THE DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS, ETC.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE RELATIVE, INTERROGATIVE, AND CERTAIN OTHER PRONOUNS.
CHAPTER IX.
ON CERTAIN FORMS IN -ER.
CHAPTER X.
THE COMPARATIVE DEGREE.
CHAPTER XI.
THE SUPERLATIVE DEGREE.
CHAPTER XII.
THE CARDINAL NUMBERS.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE ORDINAL NUMBERS.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE ARTICLES.
CHAPTER XV.
DIMINUTIVES, AUGMENTATIVES, AND PATRONYMICS.
CHAPTER XVI.
GENTILE FORMS.
CHAPTER XVII.
ON THE CONNEXION BETWEEN THE NOUN AND VERB, AND ON THE INFLECTION
OF THE INFINITIVE MOOD.
CHAPTER XVIII.
ON DERIVED VERBS.
CHAPTER XIX.
ON THE PERSONS.
CHAPTER XX.
ON THE NUMBERS OF VERBS.
CHAPTER XXI.
ON MOODS.
CHAPTER XXII.
ON TENSES IN GENERAL.
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE STRONG TENSES.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE WEAK TENSES.
CHAPTER XXV.
ON CONJUGATION.
CHAPTER XXVI.
DEFECTIVENESS AND IRREGULARITY.
CHAPTER XXVII.
THE IMPERSONAL VERBS.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE VERB SUBSTANTIVE.
CHAPTER XXIX.
THE PRESENT PARTICIPLE.
CHAPTER XXX.
THE PAST PARTICIPLE.
CHAPTER XXXI.
COMPOSITION.
CHAPTER XXXII.
ON DERIVATION AND INFLECTION.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
ADVERBS.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
ON CERTAIN ADVERBS OF PLACE.
CHAPTER XXXV.
ON WHEN, THEN, AND THAN.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
ON THE GRAMMATICAL POSITION OF THE WORDS mine AND thine.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE WEAK PRÆTERITE.
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저자 : Robert Gordon Latham
R. G. LATHAM, M.D., F.R.S.,
LATE PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE,
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.
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