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The American language : an inquiry into the development of English in the United States /

Основен автор: Mencken, H. L. 1880-1956.
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1936.
Издание: 4th ed., cor., enl., and rewritten.
Предмети:
English language > United States.
Americanisms.
Names > United States.
Names, Personal > United States.
Подобни документи: Online version:: American language.
Online version:: American language.
Съдържание:
  • I. The two streams of English. The earliest alarms
  • The English attack
  • American "barbarisms"
  • The English attitude today
  • The position of the learned
  • The views of writing men
  • The political front
  • Foreign observers
  • II. The materials of the inquiry. The hallmarks of American
  • What is an Americanism?
  • III. The beginnings of American. The first loan-words
  • New words of English material
  • Changed meanings
  • Archaic English words
  • IV. The period of growth. A new nation in the making
  • The expanding vocabulary
  • Loan-words and non-English influences
  • V. The language today. After the Civil War
  • The making of new nouns
  • Verbs
  • Other parts of speech
  • Foreign influences today
  • VI. American and English. The infiltration of English by Americanisms
  • Surviving differences
  • English difficulties with American
  • Briticisms in the United States
  • Honorifics
  • Euphemisms
  • Forbidden words
  • Expletives
  • VII. The pronunciation of American. Its general characters
  • The vowels
  • The consonants
  • Dialects
  • VIII. American spelling. The influence of Noah Webster
  • The advance of American spelling
  • The simplified spelling movement
  • The treatment of loan-words
  • Punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviation
  • IX. The common speech. Outlines of its grammar
  • The verb
  • The pronoun
  • The noun
  • The adjective
  • The adverb
  • The double negative
  • Other syntactical peculiarities
  • X. Proper names in America. Surnames
  • Given-names
  • Place-names
  • Other proper names
  • XI. American slang. The nature of slang
  • Cant and argot
  • XII. The future of the language. The spread of English
  • English or American?
  • Appendix : Non-English dialects in America : Germanic
  • Latin
  • Slavic
  • Finno-Ugrian
  • Celtic
  • Semitic
  • Greek
  • Asiatic
  • Miscellaneous.

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