Six essays were written with the collaboration of Sherman M. Kuhn and others.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Poetic language and Old English metre.--Langland's use of kind wit and inwit.--Vis imaginativa.--On the problem of inflexional juncture in Old English.--Some recent interpretations of Old English digraph spellings.--The Old English digraphs: a reply.--The survey of English usage.--Research problems and the teaching of English.--Relative clauses in educated spoken English.--From descriptive to prescriptive: an example.--Co-existing negative preterite forms of dare.--Studies in the correspondence of prosodic to grammatical features in English.--On scales of contrast in connected English speech.--Complex prepositions and related sequences.--Substitutions and syntactical research.--Descriptive statement and serial relationship.--Acceptability in language.
