Slang and cant in Jerome K. Jerome's works : $b A studyBosson, Olof E.
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Slang and cant in Jerome K. Jerome's works : $b A study
Bosson, Olof E.
English language -- Slang; Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927
BORGSTRÖM, EDVARD. _The Proverbs of Alfred, re-edited from the
Manuscripts, with an Introduction, Notes and Glossary._ 240 × 165 mm.,
pp. xc. + 100. Lund, 1908.
GABRIELSON, ARVID. _Rime as a Criterion of the Pronunciation of Spenser,
Pope, Byron and Swinburne._ 240 × 160 mm., pp. xvi. + 211. Upsala, 1909.
ZACHRISSON, ROBERT. _Anglo-Norman Influence on English Place-Names._ 240
× 165 mm., pp. xv. + 169. Lund, 1909.
_Messrs. W. Heffer and Sons Ltd., of Cambridge, England, having special
connections in Sweden, will be pleased to procure for British purchasers
copies of such of these treatises as are still in print._
Svea English Treatises.
_Price (bound in cloth), 2s. 6d. net. each._
Each Work has a bibliography, list of works consulted, and (usually) an
index.
W. LEEB-LUNDBERG. =Word Formation in Kipling: a Stylistic-Philological
Study.= 210 × 130 mm., pp. viii. + 116. 1909.
_Introduction_: Character and Style; i., Kipling and the
Short Story; ii., Development of Character; iii., General
Characteristics; iv., Vocabulary.
I. _Stylistic Survey_: General stylistic principles; use of
hyphen; mannerisms; formative principles; onomatopes.
II. _Grammatical Survey_: Substantives; adjectives;
parasynthetics; participles; verbs; adverbs; onomatopes.
CARL EFVERGREN. =Names of Places in a Transferred Sense in English: a
Sematological Study.= 235 × 155 mm., pp. xii + 123. 1909.
I. General Terms of Locality used in a Transferred Sense.
IIA. Names of Places in Appellative Use: Metaphor, Metonymy,
Synecdoche.
B. The Place-Name first serves as an Attribute to a Noun,
which afterwards drops off: Human Beings; Animals; Minerals,
Salts, etc.; Trees, Plants, Wood, etc.; Fruits; Beverages;
Foods; Tobaccos, Cigars, Snuffs; Medicines, Drugs, Perfumes,
etc.; Colours, Varnishes, etc.; Fabrics and Materials; Articles
of Dress; Earthenware and Porcelains, etc.; Steels, Weapons,
Weights, Coins, etc.; Carriages, Ships, etc.; Miscellaneous;
Dances and Steps; Games, etc.; Winds; Languages, etc.
Excursus: Scriptural Phrases with place-names in a transferred
sense; place-names in humorous allusion; place-names in
appellative use through popular etymology; place-names used as
verbs.
GUSTAF L. LANNERT. =An Investigation into the Language of Robinson Crusoe
as compared with that of other Eighteenth-Century Works.= 235 × 155 mm.,
pp. xxxvii. + 124. 1910.
_Introduction_: Earlier work on Eighteenth-Century English;
general remarks in the language of _Robinson Crusoe_;
orthography; phonological notes.
_Accidence_: Indefinite article; substantives; adjectives;
numerals; pronouns; verbs (simple and periphrastic tenses);
adjectival adverb.
GUNNAR SERNER. =On the Language of Swinburne’s Lyrics and Epics.= 235 ×
155 mm., pp. viii. + 138. 1910.
_Introduction_: General characteristics of Swinburne’s language.
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