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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... questions which lie outside the Indo - European domain , as for example those suggested by universal philology , because in reality the influence of phi- losophical linguistic research upon the science founded by BOPP has always been of ...
... question . In the same sense I claim for myself the right to investigate what constitutes the actual power of that richly - endowed master to whom we owe the foundation of our science . Whoever reads with unprejudiced mind my sketch of ...
... questions relative to both method and practice . A treatise with such an aim in view would require constant revision and extension , and would be completely antiquated in the course of a year . The present work , however , only proposes ...
... 130-139 . BOPP's view , 131-132 . Theory of a genealogical tree , 132-134 . " Wave- theory " , 134-136 . Present state of the question , 136-139 . INDEX , pages 140-142 . CHAPTER I. FRANZ BOPP . When FRANZ BOPP ( born XIV CONTENTS .
... question intelligible , I must first say a word about the customary clas- sification of the parts of speech at the beginning of our cen- tury . There was at that time a general prejudice in favor of the theory that the sentence must be ...
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |