Generations of students of English have benefited from the changes that Sweet wrought in the understanding of the historical and contemporary forms of the language.' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This clear, concise and authoritative dictionary is the ideal reference for the student of Old English literature and language. Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was educated at King's College School, London, the University of Heidelberg and Balliol College, Oxford. He was an active member of the Philological Society and served as its president from 1876 to 1878. He was a member of the Royal Danish Academy and a corresponding member the Munich and Royal Prussian Academies of Sciences. Despite his outstanding intellectual abilities and talent for teaching, it was only in 1901 that he was given a readership in Phonetics at Oxford University. The character of Professor Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion was partly based upon Sweet.
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Henry Sweet è stato un influente filologo e fonetista inglese specializzato nelle lingue germaniche, in particolare nell'inglese antico e nel norreno antico. Il suo lavoro pionieristico ha esplorato questioni più ampie di fonetica, grammatica e pedagogia linguistica, e molte delle sue idee rimangono vitali negli attuali circoli accademici. Pioniere nell'insegnamento delle lingue, Sweet ha enfatizzato il linguaggio parlato e la fonetica, producendo opere seminali che hanno gettato le basi per gli studi fonetici moderni e la descrizione scientifica del parlato. I suoi contributi, in particolare alla dialettologia dell'inglese antico e allo studio della pronuncia, continuano a informare la ricerca linguistica.
Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse
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