Author:Henry Sweet

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Henry Sweet
(1845–1912)
English philologist, phonetician and grammarian
This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "H. Sw."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "H. Sw."

Henry Sweet

Works[edit]

English language[edit]

  • Anglo-Saxon Primer Gutenberg
  • A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical
    • ⁠Part I. Introduction, Phonology, and Accidence
  • A Short Historical English Grammar
  • A Primer of Historical English Grammar
  • History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period. With full Word-Lists
  • An Anglo-Saxon Primer, with Grammar, Notes, and Glossary
  • An Anglo-Saxon Reader. In Prose and Verse. With Grammatical Introduction, Notes, and Glossary
  • A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader
  • Old English Reading Primers
    • I. Selected Homilies of Ælfric
    • II. Extracts from Alfred's Orosius
  • First Middle English Primer, with Grammar and Glossary.
  • Second Middle English Primer. Extracts from Chaucer, with Grammar and Glossary.
  • A Primer of Spoken English
  • The student's dictionary of Anglo-Saxon 1911

Other linguistic works[edit]

As editor[edit]

Encyclopædia Britannica[edit]

Works about Sweet[edit]

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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