Outline Of The History Of The English Language And Literature

Originally published in 1882. CONTENTS of Outline of the History of the English Language and Literature . PREFACE. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. CHAPTER I. History of its Vocabulary. 1. What a Language is 2. The English Language 3. Family 4. Teutons 5. High-German 6. Low-German 7. Scandinavian 8. The chief Teutonic Languages 9. Where the English came from 10. The Periods of English 11. Anglo-Saxon 12. Early English 13. Middle English 14. Modern English 15. English Words in English Language 16. Changes in English 17. Loss and Gain 18. Foreign Elements in English 19. Welsh 20. Keltic Element 21. Latin Element of First Period (i) 22. " "(ii) 23. Latin Element of Second Period (i) 24. "" (ii) 25. Scandinavian Element (i) 26. "" (ii) 27. "" (iii) 28. Latin Element of Third Period (i) 29. "" (ii) 30. "" (iii) 31. "" (iv) 32. "" (v) 33. "" (vi) 34. Synonyms from Norman-French 35. Bilingualism 36. Doublets 37. Doublets 38. Pronunciation 39. Latin of Fourth Period 40. Mouth Latin and Book Latin 41. Greek Doublets 42. English and French Words in Sentences 43. English Words Lost CHAPTER II. The History of the Grammar of English. 1. An Inflected Language 2. Grammar of Nouns 3. Grammar of Adjectives 4. Grammar of Definite Article 5. Grammar of Personal Pronoun 6. Grammar of Verbs 7. Fragments of Noun Inflections 8. "Adjective Inflections 9. "Pronoun Inflections 10. "Verb Inflections 11. "Inflections in Adverbs 12. "Inflections in Prepositions CHAPTER III. Changes in Modern English. 1. Formation of Modern English 2. Continued History 3. Spanish and Italian 4. Dutch Words 5. Latin and Teutonic Element 6. Influences affecting our Language at the present time CHAPTER IV. Words adopted from Foreign Languages. 1. Words adopted from Foreign Languages 2. Chief Dates in the History of the English Language CHAPTER V. Notes on the Growth of English Words. 1. Roots; Influence of Imitation on Language 2. Hybrids 3. Words disguised in Form or in Meaning 4. Words that have changed their Meaning 5. Words from the Names of Persons 6. Words from Names of Places 7. English (or Teutonic) Roots 8. Latin Roots 9. Greek Roots 10. Branching of Words from Latin Stems 11. Branching of Words from English Stems CHAPTER VI. Prefixes and Suffixes. Prefixes. 1. English (or Teutonic) 2. Latin 3. Greek Suffixes. 4. English (or Teutonic) 5. Latin 6. Greek LITERATURE. I. Outline of Our Early Literature 1. The Beowulf 2. C?dmon 3. B?da 4. King Alfred 5. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 6. Archbishop ?lfric 7. Anglo-Saxon Gospels 8. Old English Dialects 9. First English Book after Norman Conquest 10. Orm's Ormulum 11. Langland and Chaucer 12. Alliteration or Head-Rhyme 13. John Gower 14. John Barbour 15. Sir John Mandeville 16. John Wicliffe 17. Our English Bible and its History II. Tabular Outline of modern English Literature.

• | Author: Anonymous
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Oct 26, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 148 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1539743829
• | ISBN-13: 9781539743828