The Place of the Adjective Attribute, in English Prose, from the Oldest Times Up to Our Days, a Syntactic-Historical Study (Classic Reprint)

Die Stellung des A ttributiven A djektivs im Englischen von den ersten A nfangen der englischen Sprache bis zur Friih-N euenglischen Sprach-P eriode, by A. Mullner, and published in 1906 I began to fear that much of my labour might have been in vain, but soon found that Milliner was not a very formidable rival. This may sound arrogant, but the fact is that Mullner swork contains hardly anything beyond a very limited collection of quotations in the shortest form possible, one half of them being taken from poetry. The prose texts examined by my esteemed colleague are: A lfred, Othere and Wulfstan (K luge, A ngels. Leseb.); A lfred, Vorrede zur Cura Pastotalis (K luge, Leseb.); A lfred, Cura Pastoralis (E. E. T. S. Bd. 45); itlfric, Homilien (K luge, Leseb.); Saxon Chronicle (K luge, Leseb.); Morris, Specimens of Early English, Part I; Dan Michel, A yenb. of I nw. (pp. 70 76); R. R, de Hampole (M atzner, A ltengL Sprachproben); Trevisa, Polychronicon (V ol. I, Ch. XXIII -XXV) ;M aundeville, Voiage and Travaile (M atzner; pp. 155 182); Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus; Malory, King Arthur (pp. 150). Voila tout! It is true that Milliner gives a brief resume after each period, but he restricts himself to stating that the word The copy I possess was printed in New York,
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