Historical Outlines of English Accidence: Comprising Chapters on the History and Development of the Language, and on Word-formation |
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adjectives adverb Ayenbite become Cæsar century we find Chaucer cognate comparative compounds connecting vowel consonants dative declension demonstrative ending feminine fourteenth century FOURTH PERIOD French gender genitive Goth Gothic Grammar Greek hence indefinite infinitive inflections inflexion language later forms Latin lost masc masculine modern English NEUT neuter Northern dialect nouns numerous O.E. we find O.Fr O.H.Ger O.Sax occurs Old English older oldest English originally Ormulum participle passive participle Past Indicative past tense PERF perfect period we find personal pronouns plural prefix preposition PRES Present Indicative Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester root Sansk Sanskrit Saxon Second period Shakespeare silf Sing singular sometimes Southern Spenser spoken stem strong verbs Subjunctive substantives suffix superlative syllable Teutonic ther THIRD PERIOD thirteenth and fourteenth thirteenth century thou vowel weak verbs West Midland Wickliffe writers þæt þat