Collected papers of Henry Sweet

Publication date 1913 Topics Comparative linguistics, Germanic philology, Phonetics Publisher Oxford, The Clarendon press Collection cornell; americana Contributor Cornell University Library Language English Item Size 701.0M

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"The . majority of the papers are reprinted from the Transactions of the Philological society. Those on Old English etymologies and Disguised compounds in OE. are reprinted from Englische studien and Anglia."--Pref

I. Words, logic and grammar: Words, logic, and grammar (1876) The practical study of language (1884) Linguistic affinity (1900)--II. Progress of linguistic science: Report on Germanic and Scandinavian (1874) Presidential address on English philology and phonology (1877) English and Germanic philology (1878) The Indogermanic vowel-system (1880) Phonetics, general philology, and Germanic and English philology (1882)--III. History of English: The history of the th in English (1869) Dialects and prehistoric forms of Old English (1876) Old English etymologies (1879-85) Various notes: Disguised compounds in OE. (1880); The preterite of 'cuman' (1880); Stress in OE. (1882); English it (1883); History of g in English (1883)--IV. Shelley's nature-poetry (1888)--V. Phonetics and accounts of living languages: Sound notation (1880) Danish pronunciation (1873) Sounds and forms of spoken Swedish (1879) Russian pronunciation (1879) Spoken Portuguese (1883) Spoken North Welsh (1884)