英语的成长和结构(英文) 9787510069086

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作者简介

作者:(丹麦)奥托·叶斯柏森(Otto Jespersen)

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英文目录
前言
第一章概览
第二章开端
第三章古英语
第四章斯堪的纳维亚语
第五章法语
第六章拉丁语和希腊语
第七章多元来源
第八章语法
第九章莎士比亚与诗歌语言
第十章结论

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163.There is one manner of forming verbs from nouns md vice versa which is specifically English and which is)f the greatest value on account of the ease with which t is managed,namely that of making them exactly like one anorher.In Old English there were a certain number l)f verbs and nouns of the same 'root',but distinguished 3y the endings.Thus 'I love' through the three persons Iingular ran lufie lufast lufa,plural lufiap; the infinitive iwas lufian,the subjunctive lufie,pi.lufien,and the imiaerative was lufa,pi.lufia.The noun 'love' on the other laand was lufu,in the other cases lufe,plural lufa or lufe,iufum,lufena or lufa.Similarly 'to sleep' was slcepan,pres.slcepe slcspest sleep(e),slcbpaji,subjunctive slcepe,
VII.Various Sources.
slcbpen,imperative sleep,slcepaj),while the noun had the' forms sleep,slcepe,and slcepes in the singular,and slcepas,slcepum,slcepa in the plural.If we were to give the corresponding forms used in the subsequent centuries,we should witness a gradual simplification which had as a further consequence the mutual approximation of the verbal and nominal forms.The—m is changed into—n,all the vowels of the weak syllables are levelled to one uniform e,the plural forms of the verbs in—j)give way to forms in—n,and all the final n's eventually disappear,while in the nouns s is gradually extended so that it be—comes the only genirive and almost the only plural ending.Thesecond person singular of the verbs retains its distinctive—st,but towards the end of the Middle English period thou already begins to be less used,and the polite ye,you,which becomes more and more universal,claims' no distinctive ending in the verb.In the fifteenth century,the e of the endings which had hitherto been pro—; nounced,ceased to be sounded,and somewhat Iatef became the ordinary ending of the third person singulai instead of th.These changes brought about the moderr scheme: a j noun: love loves a sleep sleeps,!
ISBN9787510069086
出版社世界图书出版公司
作者奥托·叶斯柏森 (Otto Jespersen)
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