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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 · Henry Sweet was an English philologist, phonetician, and grammarian who pioneered the study of spoken English and language teaching. He edited Old English texts, described the received pronunciation, and influenced Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
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 (1845-1912) was a philologist and phonetician who advocated 'grasping sentences as wholes' as a method of language learning. He was influenced by medieval scribal practices and King Alfred's translation, and criticised analytical and etymological approaches.
