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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... regard to single views of my contemporaries . To this point I would fain call the attention of those readers who perhaps might be in- clined to think that I have not done justice to this or that eminent living philologist . Jena ...
... it . My position with regard to the great philologists BOPP , GRIMM and others is as untrammeled as that we occupy to- ward SHAKESPEARE and GOETHE . If a historian of literature VIII AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION .
... regard to the notion " root " , it was pos- sible for Bopp to derive from the grammatical tradition pre- valent at his time the opinion which he here expressed and retained ever after , namely , that all words go back to mono- syllabic ...
... the most part " , because a few endings ( os and sām ) are not considered as accounted for , and sometimes a symbolical explanation ( v . below , page 15 ) is attempted . opinion in regard to the middle endings , but he FRANZ BOPP . 13.
... regard to the middle endings , but he thinks it probable that they are due to the doubling of the correspond- ing ... regards the negative particle itself as related . In the S - aorist the s belongs to the substantive verb , and the ...
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |