Introduction to the Study of Language: A Critical Survey of the History and Methods of Comparative Philology of the Indo-European LanguagesFB & Limited, 1882 - 142 pages Excerpt from Introduction to the Study of Language: A Critical Survey of the History and Methods of Comparative Philology of the Indo-European Languages The character of the present work is mainly determined by the circumstance that it is intended by the author to facili tate the study of the Grammars which breitkopf hartel are publishing, as well as the comprehension of comparative philology in its newest form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... Grammar , which forms the second volume of this se- ries ; for Zend , HÜBSCHMANN's transcription , advocated by him in Kuhn's Zeitschrift , 24 , page 328 seq . , has been em- ployed . In conclusion , I must express my heartiest ...
... grammar , than could have been produced by accident ; so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source , which , perhaps , no longer exists . There is a similar ...
... Grammar ] was to gain a knowledge of the origin of the gram- matical forms of the Indo - European languages ; that their comparison was only a means to the attainment of this end , merely a method of discovering their fundamental forms ...
... grammar . - Now that the principle of composition was once recom- mended in this way , it is no wonder that it was also applied in other cases than in the tenses compounded with as , and in the personal suffixes , so , for instance , in ...
... Grammar , and which chiefly differs from the second form in more and more exclu- sively emphasizing the principle of composition , as well as applying it to those departments of grammar which had not been treated in the ...
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |