Lund Studies English Fransson Gustav (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Usual ex-ibrary markings. Otherwise, book is in very good condition. Study XIX is a 1967 reprint of a 1935 publication, and has 285 pp. with index. ""The present investigation comprises the whole Middle English, but the bulk of the material dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, and there are not many examples from the 12th century. As regards time, then, I have not limited the scope of the inquiry as Fransson does. Had I done so, I should have excluded many interesting words and forms. It is true that many of the late examples, especially those from the 15th century, represent real surnames which had become hereditary and thus lost their original meaning; but they are still the same words, and the phonological features they exhibit may often be of great interest. In another respect it has been necessary to restrict the investigation. It was of course impossible to go through sources from the whole of England, so I had to limit myself to certain counties. The choice of counties has been made according to the principle that they should represent different parts of England - and thus different dialects, but I have also had to take into consideration to what extent the documents had been published. Besides London, the following counties have provided the material, viz. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Somersetshire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, and Lancashire. However, a few sources from other counties, too, have been excerpted, and examples drawn from these sources have been included if they are of an earlier date than the others, if they show other forms of spellings, or if they are the only instances found." - Introduction by Bertil Thureson. Study XX is a1967 reprint of a 1950 publication, and has 428 pp. with bibliography. "This thesis deals with a subject in which up to the present time scholars have taken little interest. The principles determining the use of prepositions and the different senses which prepositions are used to express, belong on the whole to those branches of syntax and semasiology where it seems that least work has been done; and this is true not only of English but apparently of most languages. Thus the three grade investigators of English syntax, Poutsma, Jespersen and Kruizinga, have considered it fit to pass over the subject of prepositions entirely, or almost so. And yet it seems clear that the senses and usages of the English prepositions need to be investigated accurately and in detail, and that this subject is a comprehensive field which future scholars may with advantage penetrate systematically in monographs. My study, which deals merely with such a limited section of it as the local senses of the prepositions in, at, on, and to, and which is further restricted to modern English, exclusive of American English, has, in spite of its limitation, extended to more than 400 pages. This will give some idea of the extensive field of work constituted by this mapping out of English prepositional use. And, furthermore, a penetrating investigation of this aspect of the English language is desirable, indeed necessary, and not only because it has been neglected by earlier scholars, but also because it is probably this part of the language which causes foreigners who learn English the greatest difficulty." - introduction by Karl-Gunnar Lindkvist Oversized volume may require additional shipping.