Studien zur englischen Philologie, Issue 7Niemeyer., 1900 - English philology |
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A. S. Dict ablaut Alex Altisl Altschwed analogous Anglia XX Arkiv f Arth Bosw.-Toller Brate Braune's Beiträge Bülbring by-form Cart consonant Danelag depend on Scand derived dialects Dictionaries dinavian diphthong due to Scand East Scand Engl English word etymology explained foot-note Germ Goth Gramm Gramm.2 ground-form Grundr Hamp i-mutation i-vowel Kluge Kluge-Lutz Langl language Lidén loan-words Luick M. E. word Middle English Morsbach N. E. dial nasal consonant native form native word Nord Noreen Norw O. W. Scand occurs Ordb Orrm Orrmulum palatalisation Paul and Braune's Paul's Grundr.2 perhaps Phil possible pret probably Prov Rietz rime-word Scandinavian influence Scandinavian loan-words seems Sievers Skeat Söderwall sound-change sound-laws spelling Steenstrup Stratm.-Bradley Stud suffix Swed Sweet Tamm Teut texts u-mutation verb vowel Wall Wicl Zupitza
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Page 70 - Where Flemynges began on me for to cry, " Master, what will you copen or by ? Fyne felt hattes, or spectacles to reede ? Lay down your sylver, and here you may speede.
Page 13 - So when we find that the wearing away and levelling of grammatical forms in the regions in which the Danes chiefly settled was a couple of centuries in advance of the same process in the more southern parts of the country...
Page 13 - ... on its mere vocabulary. It is in harmony with this view that the wearing away and levelling of grammatical forms in the regions in which the Danes chiefly settled was a couple of centuries in advance of the same process in the more southern parts of the country. A fully satisfactory solution of the question of the mutual relations of North English and Scandinavian at that time must be regarded as hopeless on account of the small number, and generally inadequate character, of linguistic records...
Page 12 - J) was so nearly akin with the native dialects that the two peoples could understand one another without much difficulty. But it was just such circumstances which made it natural that many nuances of grammar should be sacrificed, the intelligibility of either tongue coming...
Page 13 - ... much may be due to independent parallel development in two areas which offered such striking analogies in so many essential particulars. But, as I hold, any linguistic change should primarily be explained on the basis of the language itself, while analogues from other languages may serve as illustrations and help to show what in the development of a language is due to psychological causes of a universal character, and what is, on the other hand, to be considered the effect of the idiosyncrasies...
Page 6 - English, it would not be very astonishing to find these terms reintroduced into the English language again and showing a distinctively Scandinavian form. — There are also some words in English introduced from Anglo-French, the stem of which is of English origin. Such a word is NE scavenger, cf. Skeat, Princ. E. Et. II p. 138ff., Et. D. sv vaders, the introduction of such words being of exactly the same character as the introduction of technical terms and words nowadays from one language to another....
Page 21 - I p. 938.1) § 5. The historical facts concerning the Scandinavian invasion, the life and conditions of the Scandinavian settlers, their political relations to the English etc. are all easily gathered from the historical literature and need not here be specially dealt with.2) It will, in this connection, be sufficient to point out that...
Page 46 - Gott. 1896 p. 53), AR 136, hendeleik 'graciousness' 0. E. Hom., Hav. etc., -laik, eg freolaik HM 7, hendelaik MH 49, Gaw., AP, etc.2) The corresponding English lac also occurs as a suffix in 0. E., see Sweet, NE Gramm. I p. 462, and still survives in the Mod. E. wedlock. Mi pese es made for euer mare For pe knight pat I slogh pare So pat I may wend, hardily, Hame again mi pese to cri; And parfore wil 1 with hir wende Forto speke with ilka frende' ' Sir, sekerly, said pe erl pan, Me think pou has...
Page 4 - INFLUENCE above,14 did constitute an admissible explanation of the change in question, it is extremely doubtful whether any supporting evidence could be found, for, as Bjorkmann has aptly put it, "We know no English literature, worth speaking of, written in the language of the parts of England where the Scandinavian has proved to have been, in later times, of such great importance, dating earlier than the 13th century.
Page 7 - England and looked upon as the dialects of foreigners, only used in everyday talk and, being considered more or less careless or vulgar, not admitted to the ranks of the literary language.