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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... connection with the philo- sophical endeavors of German scholars , and also how it has come about that in linguistic science a sort of metaphysics has arisen , which is at present undergoing a process of dissolution . But at the same ...
... connection is really no other than a purely mechanical one , by means of outward affixion . In their first origin these languages lack a germ of living development " etc. ( Page 51. ) 1 ) Probably in this opposition he has in mind the ...
... connection : " It is contrary to the spirit of the Sanskrit language to express any relation by affixing several letters which can be regarded as an individual word . " ( Page 30. ) In the Conjugationssystem he leaves the origin of ...
... connection with the imperfect , is considered by Bopp ( Vgl . Gr . , § 537 , and even earlier in the Analytical Comparison , page 27 ) as identical with a privative , and is therefore regarded by him as a nega- tion of present time ...
... connected with it , is adjacent to it , and together with it represents a whole , then the notion of sea and main land could as appropriately represent a modification of the sea , or the reverse . " " We can characterize the theory of ...
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |