George Perkins Marsh

Lectures on the English Language

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• PREFACE
• STUDY OF EARLY ENGLISH -- excerpts
  • Difficulty of English:
    • incorrectly spoken.
• VOCABULARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  • Archaic diction.
  • Reaction of Words
  • Corn, meat, flesh.
  • Permanence of words: conservative influence of the authorized version of the Bible, of Shakespeare, and of Milton.
• GRAMMATICAL INFLEXIONS
  • Introduction of the form its.
  • Notes and illustrations.
    • "It" as an indeterminate pronoun.
• THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS AFFECTED BY THE ART OF PRINTING
  • Mode of reading among the ancients:
    • ancient habits of thought.
• TRANSLATION
  • True aim of translation.
  • Choice of dialect of language into which the translation is to be made.
• THE ENGLISH BIBLE
  • Table of contents.
  • Relations of the English Bible to the English language.
  • Its influence upon the character of the English people.
  • Dialect of the translation not the colloquial speech of the English people.
  • Difference between the position of Luther and that of the revisers of the English Bible.
  • Authorized version of the Bible founded upon previous translations.
  • Dialect of these translations not that of the secular literature of their times.
  • Influence of Wycliffe's and Tyndale's versions upon the English language.
  • Formation of our English Sacred dialect.
  • Objections to a revision of the English Bible.
  • Early English specially appropriate to the translation of the Bible.
  • Disturbance of formulas.
  • Revision inexpedient at the present time.
• CORRUPTIONS OF LANGUAGE.
  • George Perkins Marsh's Examination of Dr. Latham's paradox of the corruption of language.
• Home

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