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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... explanation , or , I might almost say , of apology . Above all , I would deprecate any comparison of this short and unpretentious " Introduction " with the extensive works of MAX MÜLLER , WHITNEY und SAYCE . I by no means aim to furnish ...
... explanation of the method I have pursued . My first aim was to render the sense of the German with the utmost possible accuracy , so that if I have erred , it has been on the side of too close adherence to the text of the original . In ...
... explanation of forms , and that comparison was to him only a means to the attainment of this chief end . To illustrate by an example : he was not satisfied with the discovery , so all - important for the phonetics of each individual ...
... the school of LENNEP and SCHEID ( v . below ) , hardly HORNE TOOKE ( concerning whom cf. MAX MÜLLER , Lectures on the Science of Language , page 255 ) . If we ask how this explanation of inflection as an 4 CHAPTER I.
... explanation of inflection as an inner change of the root , which seems to us so wanting in precision and clearness , can have arisen in the mind of this gifted schol- ar , so much is plain at once , that it was not derived from ...
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |