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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... FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL'S celebrated book on the language and wisdom of the Hindus ( Ueber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier , Heidelberg , 1808 ) : DELBRÜCK , Introduction to the Study of Language . 1 " The old Indian Sanskrito , i . e .
... Indian Sanskrito , i . e . the refined or perfect , also called Gronthon , i . e . the written or book - language , bears the closest relationship to the Roman and Greek as well as to the Germanic and Persian languages . The resemblance ...
... Indian literature . With admiration we see how rightly he at once defined the tasks which were to be accomplished : " If ... India both as Brahmans and as Euro- pean critics . The Homeric questions of today were not more foreign to those ...
... India . The same tasks belong to the editor of Indian books as to the classical philologist , viz .: proof of the genuineness or spuriousness of entire works and single passages ; comparison of manuscripts , choice of readings , and ...
... India by direct observation and com- parative analysis . Now there is certainly no doubt that SCHLE- GEL was quite right in theory , when he demanded that the native masters of Indian grammar should not be neglected ; but it is also ...
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |