10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOSYLLABISM»
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monosyllabism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
monosyllabism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen (Routledge Revivals)
MONOSYLLABISM. IN. ENGLISH1. SINCE the very first beginning of the truly
scientific study of languages as such, i.e. since the beginning of the nineteenth
century, it has been customary to speak of one great class of languages as ...
2
Language Complexity: Typology, Contact, Change
Let us start with the first author's position that is illustrated in Figure 4: High
phonological complexity, e.g., a large number of syllable types, is associated with
a tendency to monosyllabism. Monosyllabic words are not suitable for coding
many ...
Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemäki, Fred Karlsson,
2008
If we explain it by quoting their Monosyllabism, and finding in the use of this 5
note scale the same inaptitude to compound which we find in that very
Monosyllabism, saying that they can as little agglutinate the Great Scale and the
Little Scale ...
John Frederick Rowbotham,
1885
4
Historical-critical Introduction to the Philosophy of ...
Monosyllabism preserves the word in its pure substance, and there, where
monosyllabsim itself appears as principle, we will be unable to refrain from
presupposing an arresting principle [XI 134] refusing all contingent de-
terminations.
5
Ethnology: In Two Parts: I. Fundamental Ethnical Problems. ...
Edkins was "This complex of sound and gesture. ..was the earliest sentence1," in
which the question of monosyllabism does not enter. The second fallacy still
persists, and most philologists continue to regard the Indo-Chinese languages as
in ...
Augustus Henry Keane,
1901
6
Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the ...
The English, it is true, has been long tending, through the excessive prevalence
of the wearing-out processes, toward a state of flectionless monosyllabism ; but
such a monosyllabism, where the grammatical categories are fully distinguished,
...
William Dwight Whitney,
1904
7
The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography
From it would be derived monosyllabism, poly- syntheticism, and inflection; the
two latter forms would tend in their turn towards monosyllabism.1 I shall mention
with regard to each of the principal ethnic groups, the peculiarities of the ...
Edkins was "This complex of sound and gesture... was the earliest sentence1," in
which the question of monosyllabism does not enter. The second fallacy still
persists, and most philologists continue to regard the Indo-Chinese languages as
in ...
9
Language: A Linguistic Introduction to History
The Romance tongues, for example, repair this monosyllabism by the addition of
suflixes. Thus the French say soletl where the Latin had sol, and have substituted
the verb gérntr (tl gémtt) for the old verb getndre (ll getnt). In Spanish there are ...
Let us now take a look at monosyllabism and the use of classifiers. (Tonality will
be discussed in the next chapter on Chinese phonetics.) Monosyllabism refers to
a language phenomenon where each morpheme is represented by a syllable ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONOSYLLABISM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
monosyllabism is used in the context of the following news items.
Kelly: Gregg Popovich, the NBA's resident grump, at 999 wins
He's had a few gambits over the years – silence as a weapon; monosyllabism; whiplash changes of mood. He's older now. At 66, he's ... «The Globe and Mail, Feb 15»
The colorful and extensive menu at Taos Cow.
Love your icecream, here's an ingredient I'd like to see more of and in the interest of monosyllabism let's call it "chok-laht" lol. taoshum Jul 28 ... «taosnews, Jul 13»
Alex Ferguson: 25 years of joy, pain and fights to keep the Reds on top
He goes in for monosyllabism and irritation, but rarely his compatriot's mockery. But since Ferguson relocated this event across the car park ... «Belfast Telegraph, Nov 11»