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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... instead of to JOLLY'S Ger- man translation , and similarly , the extracts from BOPP's Ana- lytical Comparison appear in their original English form , as well as the remarks of Sir WILLIAM JONES on page TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE . XI.
... . GOTTFRIED HERMANN is convinced , as well as BERNHARDI , that there can be but three parts of speech , and we find that BOPP was of the same opinion , as most clearly appears from a remark in the English version of his first FRANZ BOPP .
... appearing s of Indo - European forms , chiefly in consequence of his false theory concerning the three parts of speech . Accordingly , we can characterize BOPP's oldest theory of inflection , as we find it in the Conjugationssystem , as ...
... appear very questionable . For how can a monosyllabic root ( especially if , as is obviously the case , the consonants remain intact ) be inwardly inflected and al- tered to any considerable extent ? The idea of the mono- syllabic ...
... appears in the Analytical Comparison concerning the derivation of the personal suffixes from personal pronouns . The passage where this hypothesis is first introduced is so interesting that I quote it in full : τι . " The indication of ...
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