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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... scholars . In characterizing great men who are deceased , like BOPP and SCHLEICHER , I have imposed no restraint upon myself , but to proceed in the same way with reference to the living seemed to me unfitting . I have accord- ingly ...
... scholars have done ; it is only my wish to show how a minute section of the whole linguistic mass has been studied , and in my opinion ought to be studied . It is true that in one . chapter , that which treats of agglutination , I touch ...
... scholars of whose views the " Mémoires de la société de linguistique " may be consid- ered the exponent . I cannot wholly deny the justice of this criticism , but the following considerations will serve to ex- plain my course . This ...
... scholars , or are not represented at all in the language . In many cases where an important term could not be adequately translated , I have thought it only fair to in- troduce the German word in brackets . The titles of the Ger- man ...
... scholars who do not advocate the principle that phonetic laws admit of no exception ) that BOPP has left the greatest task for his successors in the department of phonetics . The impression that the words compared were identical was ...
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |