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OF THE THIRD PERSON. 444, 445. His and its 310, 311 CHAPTER VII. ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORD self. 446, 447. Myself, himself, &c. 312, 313 CHAPTER VIII. ON THE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS. 448—451. My and mine 314—316 CHAPTER IX. THE RELATIVE PRONOUNS. 452—456. Their concord 317, 318 457. Ellipsis 318 458. Equivocal antecedent 319 CHAPTER X. ON THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN. 459, 460. Direct and oblique questions 320 CHAPTER XI. THE RECIPROCAL PRONOUNS. 461, 462. Their construction 322, 323 CHAPTER XII. THE INDETERMINATE PRONOUNS. 463—466. Use of it 324, 325 467, 468. Use of them 325 CHAPTER XX. ON THE TENSES. 486. Present 342 486, 487. Preterite 342 CHAPTER XXI. SYNTAX OF THE PERSONS OF VERBS. 488, 489. Their concord 344 CHAPTER XXII. ON THE VOICES OF VERBS. 490. Hight 345 CHAPTER XXIII. ON THE AUXILIARY VERBS. 491. Their classification 346—348 492. I have ridden 348 493. I am to speak 351 494. I am to blame 351 495. I am beaten 351 CHAPTER XXIV. OF ADVERBS. 496, 497. Their syntax simple 353 498. Termination -ly 354 499. To walk and ride 354 500. From whence, &c. 354, 355 CHAPTER XXV. ON PREPOSITIONS. 501. Climb up a tree 356 502. Part of the body 356 CHAPTER XXVI. ON CONJUNCTIONS. 503, 504. Their nature 357—359 505. Their government 359 506—511. The subjunctive mood 359—364 512. Use of that 364 513. Succession of tenses 364 514. Disjunctives 365 CHAPTER XXVII. THE SYNTAX OF THE NEGATIVE. 515. Its place 366 516. Its distribution 366 517. Two negatives 367 518. Questions of appeal 367 CHAPTER XXVIII. ON THE CASE ABSOLUTE. 519. Its participial character 369 PART VI. PROSODY. 520. Derivation of the word 371 521, 522. Importance of accent 371 523—526. Measures 372, 373 527. Metrical notation 374 528—535. Rhyme 374—377 536. Blank verse 377 537, 538. Last syllable indifferent 378 539, 540. Names of common English metres 379—384 PART VII. DIALECTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 541. Saxons and Angles 385 542—544. Dialects not coincident 385, 386 545, 546. Traces of the Danes 386, 387 547 Mercian origin of the written English 387 Notes 393 AN INTRODUCTION
TO THE STUDY OF
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. PART I.GENERAL ETHNOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
CHAPTER I.GERMANIC ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.—DATE.
§ 1. The first point to be remembered in the history of the English language, is that it was not the primitive and original tongue of any of the British Islands, nor yet of any portion of them. Indeed, of the whole of Great Britain it is not the language at the present moment. Welsh is spoken in Wales, Manks in the Isle of Man, and Scotch Gaelic in the Highlands of Scotland; besides which there is the Irish Gaelic in Ireland.
§ 2. The next point to be considered is the real origin and the real affinities of the English language.
Its real origin is on the continent of Europe, and its real affinities are with certain languages there spoken. To speak more specifically, the native country of the English language is Germany; and the Germanic languages are those that are the most closely connected with our own. In Germany, languages and dialects allied to each other and allied to the mother-tongue of the English have been spoken from times anterior to history; and these, for most purposes of philology, may be considered as the aboriginal languages and dialects of that country.
§ 3. Accredited details of the different immigrations from Germany into Britain.—Until lately the details of the different Germanic invasions of England, both in respect to the particular tribes by which they were made, and
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