Language in the Making: A Word StudyHarcourt, Brace, 1922 - 205 Seiten |
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Seite 36 - Middle English of levelled inflections (naame, given, caare), and Modern English of lost inflections (naam, giv, caar). We have besides two periods of transition, one in which nama and name exist side by side, and another in which final e is beginning to drop. The latter is of very little importance, the former, commonly called SemiSaxon (a legitimate abbreviation of...
Seite 4 - ... ti + ro + d + ti + on, all found as pronominal. These examples illustrate the two forms of combination that are regular in our family of languages. A root, then, is the simplest form that can be recognized as having once had an independent existence and meaning in the development of words. As these roots are common to many words of very different senses, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish what was the original conception that a root expressed. Accordingly we assign to each root that meaning...
Seite 48 - One individual may pilfer a quadruped, where another may not cast his eyes over the boundary of a field. In the absence of the feline race, the mice give themselves up to various pastimes.
Seite 158 - Litotes, a figure of speech in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary, eg, 'a citizen of no mean city'; an ironical under-statement.
Seite 39 - Tamil has two numbers (singular and plural) and three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter).
Seite 25 - But we have direct testimony in the latter part of the fifth century and the beginning of the...
Seite 172 - An abbreviation put upon the visiting card left when one is making a final visit. Pres.* President. Prof.* Professor. pro tern, (pro tempore). For the time being. prox. ( proximo). Next month. PS (post scriptum). Postscript. QED (quod erat demonstrandum). Which was to be proved. qv (quod vide). Which see. stet. (let it stand). An abbreviation used to let a proof-reader know that an erased passage is to be restored. The Hon. The Honorable. ("Hon." and "Honorable" are not to be used without "The,"...
Seite 163 - A preposition is a word placed before a substantive to show its relation to some other word in the sentence.
Seite 115 - Mr. Brown was seen on the street last Sunday in the rain carrying a large fine jag." One may wonder what this British author would have made out of the remark of the Chicago humorist, that a certain man was not always drunk even if he did jump " from jag to jag like an alcoholic chamois.
Seite 142 - The word alphabet comes from the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta.