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... occupation of the Cape from17 95 (with a brief return to Dutch control in 180 3-6); the arrival of the English 182 0 settlers, frontier warfare with the AmaXhosa, the emancipation of the slaves and the ... ' She told them that we were agents of the system whenher neighbours went to tell of the screams, the leaders said it was the work of the struggle' (Mathiane 1 989 : 7 -8) . The definite ... large unofficial military vocabulary4 68 English in South AfricaParty as a party of the Afrikaner people, and of South Africanparticipation in the First and Second World Wars.19 48- 89. This...

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... rise of Scots to the position of official language of the kingdom, and then its gradualdecline, along with that of Gaelic in the Highlands. The introduction of Introduction1 In chapter 7 the ... April 1 988 to the Royal Society of St George, forexample, the former Member of Parliament Enoch Powell affirmed the permanent claim of the English to English: Others may speak and read English ... understanding of English (or anyother language) cannot be achieved on the basis of one of these alone.Consider, for example, the (synchronic) fact that English, whencompared with other languages,...

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... disturbances of the seventeenthand eighteenth centuries, most notably the Montrose Wars and the Jacobite uprisings of 17 15 and 17 45. With the vicious repression of the Highlands after the defeat of the ... that of southern English is the presence of a front rounded vowel, the reflex of OE /o:/. The phonetic quality of this vowel may have been higher than the symbol 0 suggests: the /y(:)/ of French ... progress of English speech in Scotland in the early Middle Ageshad, as already noted, been at the expense of Gaelic; but one result of the identification of the monarchy and government with the language...

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... appointed the Official Language Commission on 7 June 1 955 under the chairmanship of B. G. Kher ( 188 8-1 957 ). The commission was charged with the dutyto make recommendations to the President of the ... concerning the following points: (1) the progressive use of the Hindi language for the official purposes of the Union; (2) restrictions on the English language for all or any of the official purposes of ... impact 52 6 English in South Asia of these, four are in English: the Times of India (Bombay, 1 85 0 ); the Pioneer (Lucknow, 18 65) ; the Mail (Madras, 186 7), and Amrita Ba^arPatrika (Calcutta, 186 8)....

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... (ed.) (1 85 6 -7). Extracts from the journal of Thomas Dineley. The journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society New ser.1:143-6, 170 -88 ; 2 (1 85 8 -9), 22-32, 55 -6.Short, ... dependence in broadcast language. English World-wide 5: 55 - 85 . McBurney, S. ( 188 7). Colonial pronunciation. Press (Christchurch) 5 October 188 7. (Reprinted in Turner 1967.)( 188 9). Australasian ... Leon Thurstone ( 188 7-1 955 ) for the measurement of mental abilities and attitudes.topic The part of a sentence (often the subject) which is marked as that onwhich the rest of the sentence makes...

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... acted 159 2, published 1600. Text as in The Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. R. B. McKerrow,Oxford: Blackwell, 1 9 58 : III 283 . 45. From The Arte of Rhetorique, ﬁrst published 155 3. Text as in the 1 58 5 edn,ed. ... Greer et al.(1 988 ) and Smith (1 983 ) and discussed by Capp (19 85 ) , Beilin (1 987 ) and Hill(19 85 ) .7.2.1 The standard accounts of the classical inheritance and its diﬀusion through the English education ... puts the case for the 152 0s as the crucial period for the impact of humanism on English writing.7.2.2 Vickers (1 988 ) provides an excellent introduction to the history of rhetoric,with particularly...

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... of Christianity amongst the Anglo-Saxons,therefore, were of the highest importance for the history of the language. From the death of Bede in 7 35 to the reign of Alfred in the lastquarter of ... mostly by the activities of 12Contents 8 LITERARY LANGUAGE Malcolm R. Godden 490 8. 1 Introduction 490 8. 2 Poetry 491 8. 3 Prose 51 3Further reading 53 5Glossary of linguistic terms 53 6BibliographyPrimary ... be Strang 1970.Brunner 1 950 is the standard short history of English in German. Anotherimportant work is Lass 1 987 , not a &apos ;history of the language& apos; but full of important historical...

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... aspect of the diphthongal system is uncertain and subject to fierce debate and the most controversial of these are discussed in §3.3.3 in the context of the development of the language. The situation ... the meaning of morphological elements is the domain of syntax. In contrast to the forms of a language which, after all, can be described rather objectively,an analysis of the function of these ... makes the task of reconstructing the nature of the Old English language that much more difficult. Thus, in the areas which are the concern of this chapter, we have no equivalent of the Icelandic...

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... also for the later history of the language. In terms of Old English, the new phonemes /J,tf,d3/ were introduced, as well as [9] as anallophone of /x/. The incidence and distribution of /]/ was ... Mitchell 19 85 : §§349 -51 for some typically scepticalremarks on the topic). Whatever the rights of the matter, the morphology of this pronoun followed, entirely predictably, the morphology of demonstrative ... reorganisation of noun morphology, one which laid the foundations for the system of the present-day language. Naturally someparts of this reorganisation appear irrelevant to later stages of the language, ...

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