Ebook: An Elementary Middle English Grammar

1^st edition
Изд-во: Oxford University Press
Год: 1923
Страниц: 223Отрывок из вступительного слова:
The need of an elementary Middle English Grammar written on scientific and historical principles must long have been felt by pupils and teachers alike, and it is with a view of supplying this need that the present Grammar has been written. In writing it we have followed as far as possible the plan adopted in the Elementary Old English Grammar, our object being to furnish students with a concise account of the phonology and inflexions of the Middle English period. And in order that the book may form a kind of basis for the modern English period, we have in almost all cases chosen the examples illustrating the Middle English sound-changes from words which have survived in Modern English.