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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... probable that it is really nothing but the necessary logical opposite of the theory which SCHLEGEL felt obliged to reject . In face of the absurdities of LENNEP , SCHEID & Co. , by whom language was most stupidly cut to pieces and ...
... probable that they are due to the doubling of the correspond- ing active endings . As for the characteristics of the present stem , like vʊ in Ceúyvou , it is most probable that the greater part of these are pronouns . The augment ...
... probable to him , he had recourse to another ; for ex- ample , in order to confirm the assertion that the 7 of the Slavonic participles was derived from t , he referred to the Bengali . The x of déòwxa he traces back to an s , but in ...
... probable that this view was induced by HEGEL . While , therefore , but little of the subject - matter in SCHLEI- CHER'S writings could be pronounced Hegelian , yet in the early work which was mentioned above , the influence of HEGEL is ...
... probable , contrary to Bopp , that the so - called " pronominal " roots were derived from the verbal ones ) . Like BOPP he recognized affixed pronouns in the stem and word - forming suffixes . Only on single points was his opinion ...
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |