Essays on the English language, medieval and modern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quirk, Randolph.

Series:

Indiana University studies in the history and theory of linguistics

Indiana University studies in the history and theory of linguistics.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language.

Physical Description:

viii, 200 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1968]

Contents:

Poetic language and Old English metre.

Langland's use of kind wit and inwit.

Vis imaginativa.

On the problem of inflexional juncture in Old English.

Some recent interpretations of Old English digraph spellings.

The Old English digraphs: a reply.

The survey of English usage.

Research problems and the teaching of English.

Relative clauses in educated spoken English.

From descriptive to prescriptive: an example.

Co-existing negative preterite forms of dare.

Studies in the correspondence of prosodic to grammatical features in English.

On scales of contrast in connected English speech.

Complex prepositions and related sequences.

Substitutions and syntactical research.

Descriptive statement and serial relationship.

Acceptability in language.

Notes:

Six essays were written with the collaboration of Sherman M. Kuhn and others.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

306677