A modern English grammar on historical principles is a seven-volume grammar of English written by Otto Jespersen. The first volume ("part"), Sounds and...
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the early works, the structure and rules of English grammar were based on those of Latin. A more modern approach, incorporating phonology, was introduced...
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(1909–1949). A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Vols. 1–7). Heidelberg: C. Winter. Jespersen, Otto (1933). Essentials of English Grammar: 25th...
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Otto Jespersen (category Linguists of English)
1909–1949: A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (in seven volumes; the title should be understood as 'A grammar of Modern English') originally...
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Jespersen, O., A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, vol. 1, 12.72. The first recorded use of the word gnu in English dates back to 1777...
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of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Jespersen, Otto (1909–1949) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. 7 vols...
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Plural (redirect from Plural (grammar))
B., Harper's English Grammar, Harper & Row, New York, New York, 1965 Jespersen, Otto, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, v. II, George...
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vocabulary. New York: P. Lang. Jespersen, Otto. (1942). A modern English grammar on historical principles: Morphology (Part 6). London: George Allen & Unwin...
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Internet Archive. Jespersen, Otto (1961) [1931]. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. Vol. 4: Syntax (3, Time and Tense). London: George...
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Oxford Modern English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199533190. OCLC 663438373. "Comparison", A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles...
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fascicles as work continued on the project, under the name of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected...
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Initial-stress-derived noun (redirect from Words that are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable and verbs when on a later syllable)
"5.7 Distinctive stress". Sounds and Spellings. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. Vol. 1. Routledge. ISBN 9781135663513. Retrieved...
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linguistics, grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers. Grammar rules may concern...
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difficulties but are still closer to Modern English grammar, lexicon and phonology than are 14th-century Middle English texts, such as the works of Geoffrey...
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Drift (linguistics) (category Historical linguistics)
Language Sciences. 13.1-7. Jespersen, Otto (1909–1949). A Modern English grammar on historical principles. London: Allen & Unwin. Chapter 7. Martinet, André...
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University of Pennsylvania. Citing Jespersen 1909: A modern English grammar on historical principles, p. 188-189 Dobson (1968), pp. 545 ff. Dobson (1968), pp...
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Possessive (category Grammar)
Longman. ISBN 0-582-23725-4. Jespersen, Otto. (1949) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. Part 2 (Syntax, vol. 1). Copenhagen: Munksgaard;...
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Deer (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference)
OE hors, year OE gear, pound OE pana) -Jespersen, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Part II SYNTAX (First Volume), Ch.III The Unchanged...
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Possessive determiner (category Grammar)
University Press. pp. 149–157. Jespersen, Otto. (1949) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. Part 2 (Syntax, vol. 1). Copenhagen: Munksgaard;...
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1037/0096-3445.120.4.358. Jespersen, Otto (1909). A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. Vol. 1: Sounds and Spellings. Heidelberg: C. Winter...
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underlying innate structure based on deep structure and unmarked forms. Thus, a modern notion of universal grammar, in contrast to the humanistic classics...
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necessitates a focus on diachronic processes. Initially, all of modern linguistics was historical in orientation. Even the study of modern dialects involved...
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Light verb (section English)
York: Cambridge University Press. Jespersen, O. 1965. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Part VI, Morphology. London: George Allen and Unwin...
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The grammar–translation method is a method of teaching foreign languages derived from the classical (sometimes called traditional) method of teaching...
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AP Stylebook (redirect from Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law)
in New York City. The Stylebook offers a basic reference to American English grammar, punctuation, and principles of reporting, including many definitions...
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1 (section Modern typefaces)
grammar of the English language. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43146-0. Hurford, James R. (1994). Grammar: A Student's...
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Construction grammar (often abbreviated CxG) is a family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics which posit that constructions, or learned...
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Phonology (redirect from Sound system of a language)
Early evidence for a systematic study of the sounds in a language appears in the 4th century BCE Ashtadhyayi, a Sanskrit grammar composed by Pāṇini....
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Language change (redirect from Corruption (grammar))
language change applying to Old English, even though modern English is extremely divergent from Old English in grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation....
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theoretical stance that an accurate description of the basic principles of generative grammar requires an understanding of how they could be acquired, thus...
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