Publisher's Synopsis
Originally published in 1882.
CONTENTS of Outline of the History of the English Language and Literature .
PREFACE.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
CHAPTER I. History of its Vocabulary.
1. What a Language is
2. The English Language
3. Family
4. Teutons
5. High-German
6. Low-German
7. Scandinavian
8. The chief Teutonic Languages
9. Where the English came from
10. The Periods of English
11. Anglo-Saxon
12. Early English
13. Middle English
14. Modern English
15. English Words in English Language
16. Changes in English
17. Loss and Gain
18. Foreign Elements in English
19. Welsh
20. Keltic Element
21. Latin Element of First Period (i)
22. " "(ii)
23. Latin Element of Second Period (i)
24. "" (ii)
25. Scandinavian Element (i)
26. "" (ii)
27. "" (iii)
28. Latin Element of Third Period (i)
29. "" (ii)
30. "" (iii)
31. "" (iv)
32. "" (v)
33. "" (vi)
34. Synonyms from Norman-French
35. Bilingualism
36. Doublets
37. Doublets
38. Pronunciation
39. Latin of Fourth Period
40. Mouth Latin and Book Latin
41. Greek Doublets
42. English and French Words in Sentences
43. English Words Lost
CHAPTER II. The History of the Grammar of English.
1. An Inflected Language
2. Grammar of Nouns
3. Grammar of Adjectives
4. Grammar of Definite Article
5. Grammar of Personal Pronoun
6. Grammar of Verbs
7. Fragments of Noun Inflections
8. "Adjective Inflections
9. "Pronoun Inflections
10. "Verb Inflections
11. "Inflections in Adverbs
12. "Inflections in Prepositions
CHAPTER III. Changes in Modern English.
1. Formation of Modern English
2. Continued History
3. Spanish and Italian
4. Dutch Words
5. Latin and Teutonic Element
6. Influences affecting our Language at the present time
CHAPTER IV. Words adopted from Foreign Languages.
1. Words adopted from Foreign Languages
2. Chief Dates in the History of the English Language
CHAPTER V. Notes on the Growth of English Words.
1. Roots; Influence of Imitation on Language
2. Hybrids
3. Words disguised in Form or in Meaning
4. Words that have changed their Meaning
5. Words from the Names of Persons
6. Words from Names of Places
7. English (or Teutonic) Roots
8. Latin Roots
9. Greek Roots
10. Branching of Words from Latin Stems
11. Branching of Words from English Stems
CHAPTER VI. Prefixes and Suffixes.
Prefixes.
1. English (or Teutonic)
2. Latin
3. Greek
Suffixes.
4. English (or Teutonic)
5. Latin
6. Greek
LITERATURE.
I. Outline of Our Early Literature
1. The Beowulf
2. Caedmon
3. Baeda
4. King Alfred
5. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
6. Archbishop AElfric
7. Anglo-Saxon Gospels
8. Old English Dialects
9. First English Book after Norman Conquest
10. Orm's Ormulum
11. Langland and Chaucer
12. Alliteration or Head-Rhyme
13. John Gower
14. John Barbour
15. Sir John Mandeville
16. John Wicliffe
17. Our English Bible and its History
II. Tabular Outline of modern English Literature.
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