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Henry Sweet (15 September 1845 – 30 April 1912) was an English philologist, phonetician and grammarian. As a philologist, he specialized in the Germanic languages, particularly Old English and Old Norse. In addition, Sweet published works on larger issues of phonetics and grammar in language and the teaching of languages.
May 29, 2016 · Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was a remarkable scholar who laid some of the foundations for the academic study of Old English. This blog provides an overview of Sweet’s publications with respect to Old English and Anglo-Saxon texts.
Henry Sweet, an English phonetician and language scholar, stated: “Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.”
May 29, 2018 · SWEET, Henry [1845–1912]. English philologist, phonetician, and grammarian. Born in London, and educated at King's College School, London, he matriculated in 1864 at the U. of Heidelberg.
Sep 16, 2021 · Henry Sweet (1845–1912) defined a philosophical grammar (which he referred to as philosophical, general and universal grammar) as a grammar ‘not concerned with the details of one special language or family of languages, but with the general principles that underlie the grammatical phenomena of all languages’ (1892: 3).
Overview. Henry Sweet. (1845—1912) phonetician and comparative philologist. Quick Reference. (1845–1912) A great phonetician and, after A. J. Ellis (1814–90) one of the founders of that study in England, educated at Heidelberg University and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was ... From: Sweet, Henry in The Oxford Companion to English Literature »
Henry Sweet's Idea of Language Study in the Early Middle Ages Summary. - The philologist Henry Sweet (1845-1912) regarded the phonetically-transcribed spoken sentence as the natural unit of language acquisition, rather than the individual word, and thought that
