A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (MEG) is a seven-volume reference grammar of Modern English, largely written by Otto Jespersen. The...
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Great Vowel Shift (redirect from Great English Vowel Shift)
Anglicist) who first produced a diagram for it and who in Part I (1909) of A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles coined the term. The causes...
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Jespersen, O., A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, vol. 1, 12.72. The first recorded use of the word gnu in English dates back to 1777...
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Cambridge University Press. Jespersen, Otto (1909–1949) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. 7 vols. Heidelberg: C. Winter & Copenhagen: Ejnar...
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Otto Jespersen (category Linguists of English)
longest period was the English language. Within this, the foremost work was A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, published in six volumes...
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the early works, the structure and rules of English grammar were based on those of Latin. A more modern approach, incorporating phonology, was introduced...
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A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Vols. 1–7). Heidelberg: C. Winter. Jespersen, Otto (1987) [1933]. Essentials of English Grammar: 25th...
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Plural (redirect from Plural (grammar))
B., Harper's English Grammar, Harper & Row, New York, New York, 1965 Jespersen, Otto, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, v. II, George...
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1037/0096-3445.120.4.358. Jespersen, Otto (1909). A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. Vol. 1: Sounds and Spellings. Heidelberg: C. Winter...
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Internet Archive. Jespersen, Otto (1961) [1931]. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. Vol. 4: Syntax (3, Time and Tense). London: George...
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vocabulary. New York: P. Lang. Jespersen, Otto. (1942). A modern English grammar on historical principles: Morphology (Part 6). London: George Allen & Unwin...
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on 2020-07-07. Retrieved 2021-06-01. "Comparison", A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Routledge, pp. 355–379, 2013-01-11, doi:10.4324/9780203715987-16...
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Drift (linguistics) (category Historical linguistics)
Language Sciences. 13.1-7. Jespersen, Otto (1909–1949). A Modern English grammar on historical principles. London: Allen & Unwin. Chapter 7. Martinet, André...
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Initial-stress-derived noun (redirect from Words that are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable and verbs when on a later syllable)
"5.7 Distinctive stress". Sounds and Spellings. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. Vol. 1. Routledge. ISBN 9781135663513. Retrieved...
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difficulties but are still closer to Modern English grammar, lexicon and phonology than are 14th-century Middle English texts, such as the works of Geoffrey...
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The grammar of Old English differs greatly from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected. As a Germanic language, Old English has a morphological...
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University of Pennsylvania. Citing Jespersen 1909: A modern English grammar on historical principles, p. 188-189 Dobson (1968), pp. 545 ff. Dobson (1968), pp...
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fascicles as work continued on the project, under the name of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected...
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Possessive (category Grammar)
Longman. ISBN 0-582-23725-4. Jespersen, Otto. (1949) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. Part 2 (Syntax, vol. 1). Copenhagen: Munksgaard;...
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necessitates a focus on diachronic processes. Initially, all of modern linguistics was historical in orientation. Even the study of modern dialects involved...
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Light verb (section English)
York: Cambridge University Press. Jespersen, O. 1965. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Part VI, Morphology. London: George Allen and Unwin...
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The (redirect from The (grammar))
emphatic form. Modern American and New Zealand English have an increasing tendency to limit usage of /ðiː/ pronunciation and use /ðə/, even before a vowel. Sometimes...
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linguistics, grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers. Grammar rules may concern...
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Welsh morphology (category Welsh grammar)
separate articles: Colloquial Welsh morphology, the morphology and grammar of the modern spoken variety of Welsh which can be heard spoken in Welsh-speaking...
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Possessive determiner (category Grammar)
University Press. pp. 149–157. Jespersen, Otto. (1949) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles. Part 2 (Syntax, vol. 1). Copenhagen: Munksgaard;...
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economy principle in language. Notes and observations from early modern English grammars". Mots. Words. Palabras. 3: 37–57. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.524.700. Retrieved...
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The grammar–translation method is a method of teaching foreign languages derived from the classical (sometimes called traditional) method of teaching...
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Generative grammar is a research tradition in linguistics that aims to explain the cognitive basis of language by formulating and testing explicit models...
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Construction grammar (often abbreviated CxG) is a family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics which posit that constructions, or learned...
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History of linguistics (section Arabic grammar)
Traditions of Arabic grammar and Hebrew grammar developed during the Middle Ages in a religious context like Pānini's Sanskrit grammar. Modern approaches began...
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