... history of the Spanish language by bringing the language to
life in a way that more abstract formal accounts of language evolution (tables of
sound-changes and the like) cannot.
Texts
Texts have ... way any notion of the
Spanish language . In the present day, the notion of the Spanish language is
often used, with some justification, to refer to the s...
... transcriptional practice closely parallels Japanese man’yo
¯
gana usages
known as kungana 訓假名.
Traces of what appear to be this same transcriptional strategy can be
seen again and again in the Hyangyak ... those systems. Although the amount of print space in
Lee’s original book devoted to that stage of the language was nearly as great
as that used for all the other stages...
... temporal with their Norman brethren. Norman-French became the language of
the Court and the nobility, the language of Parliament and the law courts, of the universities and the schools,
of the ... (a finger)
Date (the fruit) Dactyl. Phantasia Fancy Phantasy. Phantasma (an appearance) Phantom Phantasm.
Presbuteron (an elder) Priest Presbyter. Paralysis Palsy Paral...
... Numbers
7.7.3.1.
The heroic line
All vernaculars seeking to establish a native grand style in the Renaissance
had faced the task of finding an equivalent of the classical hexameter, the
soueraigne of verses and ... contract a Kind of Meanness by passing through
the Mouths of the Vulgar, a Poet should take particular care to guard
himself against Idiomatick Ways...
... been
called a small peninsula of Asia, and no clear geographical boundary de-
marcates it from the rest of the Eurasian land mass. The Ural Mountains
never were a barrier; for centuries, hordes of ... the Laboratory of Car-
tography at the University of Paris–Sorbonne must also be thanked for
the maps. The support of Professor Jean-Pierre Bardet, director of t...
... Waharoa—Station at
Puriri—Visit to Waikato—Station at Mangapouri—Tauranga—Rotorua The
Rotorua-Thames war—Looting of Ohinemutu station—Flight from Matamata—Mrs.
Chapman's bonnet—Withdrawal ... to Poverty Bay—Ripahau at Cook
Strait—Rauparaha—Tamihana learns from Ripahau—Tamihana and Te Whiwhi
come to Bay of Islands—Hadfield offers to return with them—H. Williams and
Hadfield vis...
... through which General Douglas
MacArthur had ruled Japan.
General Garner, the head of ORHA, and Zalmay Khalilzad, a
National Security Council (NSC) staffer and presidential envoy to the
Iraqi ...
years of mismanagement and economic sanctions and further dam-
aged by the widespread looting that followed Saddam’s fall. Prewar
American planning had called for fixing only what t...