Outline of the History of the English Language and Literature
by Anonymous
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About this eBook
- Author
- Anonymous
- Title
- Outline of the history of the English language and literature
- Credits
- Produced by Chuck Greif and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- English language -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 53094
- Release Date
- September 19, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.CHAPTER I. History of its Vocabulary. — DUPLICATE WORDS OR DOUBLETS.
- 5.CHAPTER II. The History of the Grammar of English.
- 6.CHAPTER III. Changes in Modern English.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. — Words adopted from Foreign Languages. — CHIEF DATES IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
- 8.CHAPTER V. Notes on the Growth of English Words. — 3. WORDS DISGUISED IN FORM OR IN MEANING. — 4. WORDS THAT HAVE CHANGED THEIR MEANING. — 5. WORDS DERIVED FROM THE NAMES OF PERSONS. — 6. WORDS DERIVED FROM NAMES OF PLACES. — 7. ENGLISH (OR TEUTONIC) ROOTS. — 8. LATIN ROOTS. — 9. GREEK ROOTS. — 10. THE BRANCHING OF WORDS FROM LATIN STEMS. — 11. THE BRANCHING OF WORDS FROM ENGLISH STEMS.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. Prefixes and Suffixes. — PREFIXES. — 1. ENGLISH (OR TEUTONIC). — 2. LATIN. — 3. GREEK. — SUFFIXES. — 4. ENGLISH (OR TEUTONIC). — 5. LATIN. — 6. GREEK.
- 10.LITERATURE. — I. Outline of Our Early Literature — II. Tabular Outline of modern English Literature.
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