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British Poetry Of The Long Nineteenth Century, Beverley Rilett
British Poetry Of The Long Nineteenth Century, Beverley Rilett
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A Selection for College Students, including Charlotte Smith, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, George Meredith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, and Mary Elizabeth Coleridge.
Includes biographical sketches.
doi 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1096
On The Substantivation Of Adjectives In Chaucer, Arthur Garfield Kennedy
On The Substantivation Of Adjectives In Chaucer, Arthur Garfield Kennedy
Papers from the University Studies series (University of Nebraska)
The substantivation of adjectives in English has, like most other processes of our language, been so gradual that it is difficult to fix the beginning of it in the case of any particular word or group of words, or at anyone time to measure accurately its progress. Perhaps the most satisfactory results are obtained by . comparing the data made up from the writings of authors of different periods. This investigation is offered as a study of the process of .substantivation of adjectives in the fourteenth century, as shown in the writings of Chaucer. Kellner names three ways in which …