Svea English Treatises.
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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.
I. Grammar: Accidence; syntax (general and individual); sematology.
II. Vocabulary: Substantives; adjectives; verbs; present participles; past participles (genuine and non-genuine); adverbs.
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