Dissertations on the English Language, by Noah Webster, Jr
by Noah Webster
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- Author
- Webster, Noah, 1758-1843
- Title
- Dissertations on the English Language, with Notes, Historical and Critical; to Which is Added, by Way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, With Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- English language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45738
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45738
- Release Date
- May 24, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.DISSERTATIONS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: WITH NOTES, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL. To which is added, BY WAY OF APPENDIX, AN ESSAY ON A REFORMED MODE OF SPELLING, WITH DR. FRANKLIN'S ARGUMENTS ON THAT SUBJECT.
- 2.PREFACE. — FOOTNOTES:
- 3.CONTENTS. — DIRECTIONS.
- 4.DISSERTATION I. — INTRODUCTION. — HISTORY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE. — REMARKS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 5.DISSERTATION II. — Of the ENGLISH ALPHABET. — RULES of PRONUNCIATION. — DIFFERENCES of PRONUNCIATION and CONTROVERTED POINTS EXAMINED. — FOOTNOTES:
- 6.DISSERTATION III. — EXAMINATION of CONTROVERTED POINTS, continued . — Of MODERN CORRUPTIONS in the ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION. — FOOTNOTES:
- 7.DISSERTATION IV. — FORMATION of LANGUAGE. — HORNE TOOKE's THEORY of the PARTICLES. — EXAMINATION of PARTICULAR PHRASES. — NOUNS. — POSSESSIVE CASE. — ARTICLE. — VERB. — TIME. — MODE. — NUMBER and PERSON. — AUXILIARIES. — PARTICLES. — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.DISSERTATION V. — Of the CONSTRUCTION of ENGLISH VERSE. — PAUSES. — EXPRESSION. — Of READING VERSE. — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.NOTES, — HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL. — Specimens of the Gothic Languages . — Specimens of the Celtic Languages . — Specimens of the Gothic Languages . — Specimens of the Celtic Languages . — Specimens of the Gothic Languages . — Specimens of the Celtic Languages . — Specimens of the Gothic Languages . — Specimens of the Finn and Lapland Tongues . — POSTSCRIPT. — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.APPENDIX. — AN ESSAY — OBJECTIONS. — Dr. Franklin's Answer to Miss S——. — FOOTNOTES:
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