A history of the English Language

Fates of the Apostles,
71 
Feist, Robert, 197 
Feist, S., 42 
Fellows-Jensen, Gillian, 107 
Film, words relating to, 298 
Finkenstaedt, Thomas, 242 
Finnish, 22 
Fischer, Olga, 198 
Fischer,Walther, 41 
Fisher, Jane L., 199, 250 
Fisher, John H., 195, 199, 250 
Fishman, Joshua A., 4–5, 323, 359 
Fisiak, Jacek, 17 
Fitz Osbern, William, 129 
Five Boroughs, 96 
Fix the language, desire to, 251 
Flasdieck, H.M., 198, 199, 269, 294 
Flat 
a,
373, 379ff. 
Fleming, J.A., 188 
Flemish and French in Belgium, 115 
Fleury, 88 
Flexner, Stuart Berg, 348 
Flom, G.T., 107, 406 
Index 418

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Flügel, Ewald, 286 
Foliot, Gilbert, 122 
Food, words relating to, 171 
Foote, Peter, 106 
Ford, Emily E.F., 406 
Foreign, borrowings, objection to, 217ff., 287 
Foreign influences on Old English, 74–107 
Form words, 102 
Forman, Michael L., 17 
Förster, Max, 106 
Fowler, H.W., 393 
Francis, W. Nelson, 359, 376, 402 
Frank, Francine, 350 
Franklin, B., 353, 369, 370, 391 
Franks, 84 
Fraser, Bruce, 345 
Frazer, Timothy, 407 
Freeman, E.A., 114, 118, 120, 122, 126, 186 
Freeman, Edmund, 265 
French, 4–5, 8, 28; 
Central, 140, 174; 
decline of, in England, 139; 
use of, by upper class, 114; 
in England provincial, 140; 
influence of, on English, 167ff., 227; 
knowledge of, among the middle class in England, 123; 
literature in England, 118; 
loanwords, chronology of, 178; 
manuals of instruction, 121; 
of Norfolk, 146; 
of Paris, 136 
French Academy, 264, 267, 269 
French colonists in America, words from, 363 
French cultural ascendancy in Europe, 134 
Friederici, Hans, 199 
Friedrich, J., 42 
Friedrich, Paul, 38 
Friend, Joseph H., 367, 406 
Fries, Charles C., 158, 280, 402 
Friesland, 33 
Frisian, 33 
Fromkin, Victoria, 16 
Froissart, J., 140, 148, 152 
Fula, influence of, 329 
Full inflections, period of, 52 
Functional varieties, 313 
Funke Otto, 106, 197 
Furley, J.S., 148 
Furnivall, F.J., 334, 341 
Future of the English language, 5 
Index 419

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Gaelic, 34, 45 
Gaelic Celts, 34 
Gaimar, Geoffrey, 118 
Galbraith, V.H., 126 
Galician, 29 
Gallic, 36 
Gamkrelidze, T., 41 
Ganges, 37 
Garrick, David, 273 
Gatch, Milton McG., 286 
Gates, Bill, 10 
Gathas, 25 
Geipel, John, 107 
Gelderen, Elly van, 198 
Gender, 13, 57, 166; 
issues of usage, 338; 
loss of grammatical, 166; 
natural, 13, 166 
General American dialect, 376, 381 
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, 403 
Generative grammar, 402 
Genesis, 71 
Georgia, 354, 356, 383 
German, 4, 7, 8 
German colonists in America, 351–54, 388; 
words from, 303, 363 
Germanic branch, 32 
Germanic conquest of Britain, 47 
Germanic languages, characteristics of, 51, 60 
Germantown, 353 
Germany, emigrants from, 351 
Ghana, 322 
Ghent, 88 
Gilbert, Glenn G., 330 
Gimbutas, Marija, 40, 42 
Gimson, A.C., 407 
Giraldus Cambrensis, 121, 137, 188 
Glamorgan, knight of (Philip de Mercros), 121, 123 
Glanville, Joseph, 254 
Glastonbury, 114 
Glauser, Beat, 349 
Gleason, H.A., 402 
Gloucester, 120, 387; 
Robert of, 115 
Glowka, Wayne, 407 
Gneuss, Helmut, 17, 106 
Godden, Malcolm, 73 
Godwin, earl of the West Saxons, 110 
Goidelic, 34, 45 
Goidelic Celts, 34 
Golding, Arthur, 205 
Gonzáles, F.R., 386 
Index 420

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Goodenough, Ward H., 40 
Good use, 284 
Gordon, George, 252 
Görlach, Manfred, 17, 125, 252, 318, 324, 325, 326, 329, 348, 349, 350, 361 
Gothic, 20, 32 
gotten,
360 
Gove, Philip B., 370 
Governmental and administrative words, 169 
Government-Binding grammar, 402–403
Gower, John, 146, 147, 225 
Graham-Campbell, J., 106 
Grammar, generative, 402; 
prescriptive, 278ff.; 
Scandinavian influence on English, 103; 
universal, 275, 276, 282 
Grammarians, eighteenth-century, 274 
Grammatical change,