The american language: An inquiry into the development of english in the United States

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Título
The american language: An inquiry into the development of english in the United States
Autor
Mencken, H. L.
Año
1943
Lugar de publicación
New York
Editorial
Alfred A. Knopf
Sección
Lexicografía y lingüística
Tema
1. IDIOMA INGLES - AMERICANISMOS
Contenido
I. The two streams of english. 1. The Earliest Alarrms. 2. The English Attack. 3. American "Barbarisms". 4. The English Attitude Today. 5. The Position of the Learned. 6. The Viewa of Writing Men. 7. The Polotical Front. 8. Foreing Observers. II. The Materials of the inquiry. 1. The Hallmarsks. 2. What is an Americanis?. III. The beginnings of american. 1. The First Loan-Words. 2. New Words of English Material. 3. Changed Meanings. 4. Archaic English Words. IV. The period of growth. 1. A New Naton in the Making. 2. The Expanding Vocabulary. 3. Loan-Words and Non-English Influences. V. The language today. 1. After the Civil War. 2. The Making of New Nouns. 3. Verbs. 4. Other Parts of Speech. 5. Foreign Influences Today. VI. American And English. 1. The Infiltration of English by Americanismos. 2. Surviving Diffences. 3. English Difficulties with American. 4. Briticisms in the United States. 5. Honorifics. 6. Euphemisms. 7. Forbidden Words. 8. Expletives. VII. The Pronunciation of American. 1. Its General Characters. 2. The Vowels. 3. The Consonants. 4. Dialects. VIII. American Spelling. 1.The Influence of Noah Webster. 2. The Advance of American Spelling. 3. The Simplified Spelling Movement. 4. The Treatment of Loan-Words. 5. Punctuation, Capitalization, and Abbreviation. IX. The Common Speech. 1. Outines of its Grammar. 2. The verb. 3. The Pronoun. 4. The Noun. 5. The Adjective. 6. The Adverb. 7. The Double Negative. 8. Other Syntactical Peculiarities. X. Proper Names in America. 1. Surnames. 2. Given-Names. 3. Place-Names. 4. Other Proper-Names. XI. American Slang. 1. The Nature of Slang. 2. Cant and Argot. XII. The Future of The Language. 1. The Spread of English. 2. English or American?. Appendix. Non-English Dialects in America. 1. Germanic. a. German. b. Dutch. c. Swedish. d. Dano-Norwegian. e. Icelandic. f. Yiddish. 2. Latin. a. French. b. Italian. c. Spanish. d. Portuguense. e. Rumanian. 3. Slavic. a. Czech. b. Slovak. c. Russian. d. Ukrainian. e. Serbo-Croat. f. Lithuanian. g. Polish. 4. Finno-Ugrian. a. Finnish. b. Hungarian. 5. Celtic. a. Gaelic. 6. Semitic. a. Arabic. 7. Greek. a. Modern Greek. 8. Asiatic. a. Chinese. b. Japanese. 9. Miscellaneous. a. Armenian. b. Hawaiin. c. Gipsy. List of Words and Phrases. Index.
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