Download or read book Studies in the Language of John Wycliffe written by Annie Sowell Irvine and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these Studies in the Language of John Wycliffe my main purpose has been to compare the style of Wycliffe's original English works with that of his translation of the Bible. This I have endeavored to accomplish by a thorough investigation of certain matters of syntax which most obviously affect the idiomatic quality of the author's style. Because of the limitations of time and space, and because of a desire to obtain definite results, I have restricted my study as follows, (a) I have given a chapter each to the Participle, the Infinitive, and the Subjunctive in Wycliffe, in which my own investigation has been limited to the original English works, and my comparison, so far as the translation of the Bible is concerned, has been based, in the main, on previous studies of Wycliffite English. (b) Similarly I have devoted a chapter each to the Analytic Dative Case and to the To Comynge Construction, in which my investigation has included a part of the translation of the Bible as well as the whole of the original English writings"--Leaves iii-iv