The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... regular , is in fact almost a perfect system . But the doubt will not down that the Gothic language as we know it , and our knowledge is derived from a very small body of text , was made to order , was again a language of theory and not ...
... regular , is in fact almost a perfect system . But the doubt will not down that the Gothic language as we know it , and our knowledge is derived from a very small body of text , was made to order , was again a language of theory and not ...
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... regular features of the language , but also of its less frequent peculiarities . Historically considered the sentence He stood in awe of them is not at all beyond gram- matical analysis . Its earliest form in Old English would have been ...
... regular features of the language , but also of its less frequent peculiarities . Historically considered the sentence He stood in awe of them is not at all beyond gram- matical analysis . Its earliest form in Old English would have been ...
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... regular parts of it . They are not primitive untamed survivals from the infancy of the speech , but are more likely to be late developments , resulting from some obscuring analogy or some partial dilapidation in the language . To the ...
... regular parts of it . They are not primitive untamed survivals from the infancy of the speech , but are more likely to be late developments , resulting from some obscuring analogy or some partial dilapidation in the language . To the ...
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... regular repetitions cannot be disposed of so easily . Nevertheless , in spite of what seem like overwhelming appearances of intentional system in language , many other indications make it certain that for the most part the system of a ...
... regular repetitions cannot be disposed of so easily . Nevertheless , in spite of what seem like overwhelming appearances of intentional system in language , many other indications make it certain that for the most part the system of a ...
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... regular as it has been at any later time . The conclusion is unavoidable that the grammatical facts of a language are made at a time when there are no gram- marians . The grammarians come after the work of the day is over , after the ...
... regular as it has been at any later time . The conclusion is unavoidable that the grammatical facts of a language are made at a time when there are no gram- marians . The grammarians come after the work of the day is over , after the ...
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