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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... relationship to the Roman and Greek as well as to the Germanic and Persian languages . The resemblance is found not only in a large number of roots , which it has in common with them , but extends to the innermost structure and gram ...
... relationship , especially of the fundamental forms . " Under these circumstances it seems to me expedient to speak first of BOPP's view of the origin of inflection , and after- wards to discuss his method of comparison . I. Bopp's views ...
... relation existing between the Latin and Romanic languages ( which his brother afterwards sought to characterize by the expressions " synthetic " and " analytic " ) seemed to him the more remarkable from the fact that in Sanskrit he ...
... relations in a truly organic way , by inner inflection and change of the stem - syllable . But in spite of this admirable ... relation by affixing several letters which can be regarded as an individual word . " ( Page 30. ) In the ...
... relation to each other . According to this definition , the verb has in itself no actual significance , but is ... relations are indicated . In this sense there is but one verb , viz . , the abstract verb , be , esse " etc. Since ...
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |