Part of the Cambridge Series for Schools and Training Colleges, this 1900 book provides a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to the development of English.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The history of a language a record of change; 2. Relation to one another, and to the common original, of languages which have had a common source; 3. Early history of a language to be learnt from a comparison with others; 4. The Saxon shore; 5. The position of the Teutons in Britain secured before the end of the 6th century; 6. Learning in England; 7. Peculiarities of the poetic diction in Old English; 8. Decay of learning in England after the appearance of the Danes; 9. Object of the chapter - General remarks on the Old English specimens; 10. The early West-Saxon vowel system and the development it shews; 11. Times of foreign influence in English before the Norman conquest slight; 12. Important events in the 15th century; 13. The language of the early part of the 17th century.
