Morris Richard. Historical Outlines of English Accidence

Fifth Edition. — London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. xvi, 378 pages.Comprising chapters on the history and development of the language, and on word formation. Richard Morris (September 8, 1833 – May 12, 1894), was an English philologist. Morris was born in London. In 1871 he was ordained in the Church of England, and from 1875-1888 was head master of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys, near London. His first published work was The Etymology of Local Names (1857).Between 1862 and 1880 he prepared twelve volumes for the Early English Text Society, edited the work of Geoffrey Chaucer (1866) and Edmund Spenser (1869) from the original manuscripts, and published Specimens of Early English (1867).His educational works, Historical Outlines of English Accidence (1872), Elementary Lessons in Historical English Grammar (1874) and English Grammar (1874), had a large sale and exercised a real influence. The rest of his life he devoted to the study of Pali, on which he became a recognized authority.Families of Languages
Grimm’s Law
History of the English Language
Old English Dialects
Periods of the English Language
Phonology
Orthography
Accent
Etymology
Substantives
Adjectives
Pronouns
Verbs
Adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
Derivation and Word Formation