Author(s): Jespersen Otto
Publisher: Einar Munksgaard
Year: 1942
Language: English
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Pages: 570
City: Copenhagen
Part I: Sounds and Spellings
Title
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations and Signs
Additions
Ch. I. Introduction
Ch. II.
The Basis. Consonants
Ch. III. The Basis. Vowels and Diphthongs
Ch. IV. The Basis. Quantity
Ch. V. Stress
Ch. VI. The Earliest Changes
Ch. VII. Early Changes in Consonant-Groups
Ch. VIII. The Great Vowel-shift
Ch. IX. Unstressed Vowels
Ch. X. Loss of Consonants and Rise of [a˙, ɔ˙]
Ch. XI. Seventeenth-Century Vowel-Changes
Ch. XII. Seventeenth-Century Consonant-Changes
Ch. XIII. Eighteenth-Century Changes
Ch. XIV. Present English Sounds
Ch. XV. Present English Sounds
Ch. XVI. Conclusion
Index
Additions to Index
Part II: Syntax. First Volume
Title
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations and List of Books
Chronological List of the chief works quoted
Ch. I. Introductory
Ch. II. Number
Ch. III. The Unchanged Plural
Ch. IV. The Meaning of Singular and Plural
Ch. V. Meaning of Number. Continued
Ch. VI. Number in Secondary Words
Ch. VII. Number. Appendix
Ch. VIII. Substantives
Ch. IX. Substantivized Adjectives
Ch. X. The Prop-Word One
Ch. XI. Adjectives as Principles
Ch. XII. Relations between Adjunct and Principal
Ch. XIII. Substantives as Adjuncts
Ch. XIV. Adjuncts. Continued
Ch. XV. Adjuncts. Concluded
Ch. XVI. Rank of the Pronouns
Ch. XVII. Rank of the Pronouns. Concluded
Index
Appendix
Part III:
Syntax. Second Volume
Title
Preface
Contents
Ch. I. Various Primaries
Ch. II. Clauses as Primaries
Ch. III. Relative Clauses as Primaries
Ch. IV. Relative Clause Adjuncts
Ch. V. Relative Clauses Continued
Ch. VI. Differentiation of the wh-pronouns
Ch. VII. Contact-Clauses
Ch. VIII. Relative that
Ch. IX. Relative as, than, but
Ch. X. Relative Clauses Concluded
Ch. XI. nexus. Subject
Ch. XII. Object
Ch. XIII. Verbs with Object or Preposition
Ch. XIV. Two Objects
Ch. XV. Subject of Passive Verb
Ch. XVI. Transitivity
Ch. XVII. Predicatives
Ch. XVIII. Predicatives Concluded
Additions
Index
Part IV: Syntax. Third Volume. Time and Tense
Title
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations and List of Books
Ch. I. Introductory
Ch. II. Present Tense
Ch. III. Auxiliaries of the Perfect and Pluperfect
Ch. IV. Relations between the Present and the Perfect
Ch. V. Relations between the Perfect and the Preterit
Ch. VI. The Pluperfect
Ch. VII. Tenses of the Verbids
Ch. VIII. Tenses and Auxiliaries in the Passive
Ch. IX. Imaginative use of Tenses
Ch. X. Imaginative Tenses Continued
Ch. XI. Indirect Speech
Ch. XII. The Expanded Tenses
Ch. XIII. Expanded Tenses. Continued
Ch. XIV. Expanded Tenses Concluded
Ch. XV. Will
Ch. XVI. Will Continued
Ch. XVII. Shall
Ch. XVIII. Shall Concluded
Ch. XIX. Would
Ch. XX. Should
Ch. XXI. Will, would, shall, should in Indirect Speech
Ch. XXII. Notional Survey
Ch. XXIII. (Appendix to Volume III.).
Predicatives after Particles
Index
Part V: Syntax. Fourth Volume
Title
Preface
Contents
Additions to the List of Abbreviations in vol. IV
Ch. I. Introductory
Ch. II. Simple Nexus as Ordinary Object
Ch. III. Simple Nexus as Object of Result
Ch. IV. Various Remarks on Nexus-Objects
Ch. V. Simple Nexus as Regimen of a Preposition
Ch. VI. A Simple Nexus as Tertiary
Ch. VII. Nexus-Substantives
Ch. VIII. The Gerund. Substantival Nature
Ch. IX. The Gerund. Verbal Nature
Ch. X. The Infinitive
Ch. XI. The Infinitives. Subject and Predicative
Ch. XII. Infinitive as Object
Ch. XIII. To-Infinitive as Object
Ch. XIV. Infinitive Governed by Preposition
Ch. XV. The Infinitive as Secondary
Ch. XVI. The Infinitive as Tertiary
Ch. XVII. Infinitives of Reaction and Specification
Ch. XVIII. Subject + Infinitive as Object of Main Verb
Ch. XIX. Subject + Infinitive in Other Employments
Ch. XX. Final Remarks on Infinitives
Ch. XXI. Clauses as Tertiaries
Ch. XXII. Implied Dependent Nexus
Ch. XXIII. Negation
Ch. XXIV. Requests
Ch. XXV. Questions
Index
Part VI: Morphology
Title
Preface
Contents
Ch. I. Introduction
Ch. II. Personal Endings in Verbs
Ch. III. Personal Endings in Verbs. Continued
Ch. IV. Tense-Formation in the Verbs
Ch. V. Tense-Formation in the Verbs. Continued
Ch. VI. The Naked Word
Ch. VII. The Naked Word. Continued
Ch. VIII. Compounds
Ch. IX. Compounds. Concluded
Ch. X. Reduplicative Compounds
Ch. XI. Change of Vowel without any addition of Formative
Ch. XII. Change of Consonant without any Addition of Formative
Ch. XIII. Vocalic Endings
Ch. XIV. The Ordinary -er-Ending
Ch. XV. Other Endings Containing r.
Ch. XVI. The Ordinary s-Ending
Ch. XVII. Group Formations, with s-Ending
Ch. XVIII. The Endings -s and -st in Particles
Ch. XIX. Other Endings with Sibilants
Ch. XX. The Ending -n (-en)
Ch. XXI. Other Suffixes Containing Nasals
Ch. XXII. L-Suffixes
Ch. XXIII. L-Suffixes Continued
Ch. XXIV. Suffixes Containing Dentals
Ch. XXV. Final Batch of Suffixes
Ch. XXVI. Prefixes. Negative and Related Prefixes
Ch. XXVII. Prepositional Prefixes
Ch. XXVIII. Prefixes Concluded
Ch. XXIX. Shortenings
List of verbs treated in Chs. IV & V
General Index
Part VII: Syntax
Title
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations and List of Books quoted in Vols. II-VII
Ch. I. Word-Classes
Ch. II. Sentence-Structure and Word-Order
Ch. III. Sentence-Structure. Concluded
Ch. IV. Person
Ch. V. Sex and Gender
Ch. VI. Case
Ch. VII. Case in Pronouns (Continued)
Ch. VIII. Case in Nouns
Ch. IX. Case (Continued)
Ch. X. Comparison
Ch. XI. Comparison (Continued)
Ch. XII. Determination and Indetermination (The Articles)
Ch. XIII. Articles before Junctions
Ch. XIV. Stage Two. The Definite Article
Ch. XV. Stage Three. Zero.
Ch. XVI. Proper Names
Ch. XVII. Quantifiers
Ch. XVIII. Mood
Technical Terms (mainly syntactical)
General Index
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