history of the english speaking peoples pdf

... purpose the objective ofreminding readers of the common heritage that connected peoples of the BritishIsles with the English-speaking peoples living in the Commonwealth, SouthAfrica, or the United States ... In spite of Lincoln’s Proclamation of 1863,which nominally freed the slaves in the rebellious states, millions of them hadcontinued throughout the war to work loyally for their old owners At the end ofthe war many of them ... andaccomplishing the goals of progress A number of examples demonstrate this Inthe context of the Congress of Vienna, the peace conference that concluded theNapoleonic Wars, Churchill saw the foreign policy of Viscount Castlereagh, theBritish Foreign Secretary, complemented by the armed might led by the Duke ofWellington

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... list of the MiddleEnglish texts used, accompanied by the name of the editor(s), an indication ofthe date of the manuscript(s) used (and if possible the date of the originalcomposition (in parentheses)) ... of Wessex handed over to the Trang 19Danes control of all the land north of the Thames and to the east ofWatling Street, the old Roman road running from London to Chester.North of the Tees, the ... another, depending on the competence of the languageuser, there takes place a certain degree of substitution of the forms of theborrower's language into the patterns adopted According to the

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... Hiberno-English Now the history of English is quite clearly also the social history of the English-speaking world, changing in response to a continuing background of diversity in which English ... of this series, the Early Modern Period, has often been described as the for­mative period in the history of Modern Standard English By the end of the seventeenth century what we might call the ... associated with the com­munity of English speakers from the time of their first arrival in Britain to the present day During the roughly 1,200 years between the arrival of English speakers in the British

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... of (sth.) like class 5, C A T C H (sb.) up shortX &Le class 8 One indication of the productive power of certain group-verb patterns is the history of G E T rid of and L E T go of For the ... nuisance was got rid of For the second, perhaps (371) a I let the reins go b I let go (elliptical) c I let go of the reins d The reins were let go of Whatever the precise details, the histories ... fascinating quiet voice of his he expounded to us the most terrible of allphilosophies, the philosophy of power, preached to us the most marvellous of all gospels, the gospel of gold (1895 Wilde,

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... uniformity has, of course, had a more general and diffuse effect on the historical description of English, chiefly in the form of emphasising the history of standard English, at the expense of 'vernaculars' ... variation, the appropriate chapters of the following are recommended: Baugh & Cable (1978), A History of the English Language, 3rd edn; Bourcier (1981), An Introduction to the History of the English ... 469) ' for the right of them all' (12) hare ba&re luue {St.Kath (Tit) 1212-13) ' the love of both of them' (13) her eitheres werke (Pal/adius (Tit) 808) ' the work of both (each) of them' When

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... ‘Anglo-Saxon’ The Jutes settled in Kent, Southern Hampshire and the Isle of Wight; the Saxons in the rest of Southern England south of the Thames; the Angles in the land north of the Thames Each of the ... the English forms, e.g THE NogMan ELEMENT There was still one other invasion which was to play a major part in the shaping of the English language, that of the Trang 8A Brief History of the English ... ruled by the Danes, the southern half by 1 The history of English is divided into three sections: Old English, from the earliest written documents to the end of the seventh century; Middle English,

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... Trang 2The Cambridge History of the English Language is the first volume work to provide a full account of the history of English Its authoritative coverage extends from areas of central ... Whatever the merits of the concept of the Heptarchy, from thelinguistic point of view the most important fact is that the politicalcentres of power fluctuated considerably from the seventh to the ... history and language history 11.2 Ecclesiastical history and language history 101.3 Literary history and language history 141.4 The nature of the evidence 19Further reading 25 vn Trang 9Old English

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... where the subject pronoun of casten has been left out in spite of the fact that there is no syntactic antecedent The context, of course, makes clear that the subject is the people of the town (of ... this respect is the use in Old English of periphrastic auxiliaries which are themselves in the subjunctive form Together with the loss of the subjunctive came a grammaticalisation of the modal verbs, ... Middle English, the subject of the co-ordinate clause is omitted if it is co-referential with the subject of the main clause However, the omission of the subject was more extensive in Middle English

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... hypostatised as the personification Daunger in the courtly love Trang 4theory of the Romaunt of the Rose This powerful association of DAUNGERwith the decorum of courtly love therefore evokes ... theinterpenetration of pragmatic meaning in the form of knowledge ofsituations of use, and the sense spectra of lexemes, may be a crucialprerequisite of semantic change 5.4.12 In the preceding discussion of the ... lexeme asthe starting point of our investigation 5.4.15 The general direction of the discussion of the semantic structure of Chaucer's Middle English has been from the simple concept ofsynonymy

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... between the sounds of a language and the spelling system used to express them phonology The study of the sound systems of languages. phonotactic A term in phonology referring to the constraints on the ... between theme and rheme is similar to the topic-comment contrast The theme constitutes that part ofthe sentence that presents given information and is the first major constituent of the clause The ... becomes the theme or topic of a clause The process in P D E may involve contrast, as in The wine he loved, the beer he hated. toponym The name of a place; hence toponymy is the study of place

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... thescholarship devoted to them since the late 1860s first revolutionized andthen became the implicit basis of much of the conventional wisdom aboutthe history of English phonology These sources are not ... represent the spoken equivalent in the case of short vowels, they are quite inadequate in the case of long vowels, owing to the operation of the GVS while spelling was being standardised Theconsonant ... or[Òυ] < earlier [oυ] Altogether the English of the third quarter of the eighteenth century isstructurally and phonetically quite modern; most of the changes since thenhave been relatively small-scale

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... virtually the inverse of the GSR Much of the subsequenthistory of English stress is (arguably) a story of mutual adjustmentbetween two sets of contrary tendencies: initial stress versus attraction ofstress ... being offended Trang 11Far from this (187), ‘the analogy of English accents every word ofmore than two syllables on the antepenultima’ Regardless of the details(there are hordes of exceptions ... will of course get their contour assigned by A(i) But there are cases where what looks like the GSR, or a simplifiedversion, survives (though there may be other ways of interpreting these).The

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... her the prettiest pacing Nag with the finest Side-saddle of any 4.2.6 Structure of the noun phrase In Early Modern English, the basic structure of the NP is the same as inPresent-Day English The ... noun, they may focus on the possessive instead of the noun (cf the use of only discussed in 4.2.4 above) Thus (105) means ‘the consciences of all of us’ and (106) ‘the blessings of both of us’ ... as the mayor’s daughter of Bracly, of (78) they met two of the king of Spaines armadas or Gallions. (Chamberlain 94) In (77) the head (daughter) ‘splits’ the prepositional phrase (the Mayor of

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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 ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... 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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