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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... Pronouns . 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 ...
... pronouns . The passage where this hypothesis is first introduced is so interesting that I quote it in full : τι . " The indication of the persons of verbs in the Sanskrit language and those of the same origin Mr. F. SCHLEGEL con- siders ...
... pronoun sa ; the m of the accusative recalls the Sanskrit pronominal stem i - ma ; the T - sound of the ablative comes ... pronouns of the first , second and third person ; mi is a weak- ening of the syllable ma , " which in Sanskrit and ...
... pronouns . The augment , which is mentioned in 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 ...
... pronouns in the personal suffixes of the verb . II . Bopp's method of comparing given languages . Having discussed BOPP's theory of inflection in the first section of this chapter , I will now treat of his comparison of given individual ...
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