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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 58
... speech , 48–53 . SCHLEICHER not a scientist , but a philo- logist , 54-55 . CHAPTER IV : NEW ENDEAVORS , pages 55-61 . New endeavors are manifest in the following tendencies : 1 ) Less interest is felt in the history of inflection ( i ...
... speech ? 100. AscoLr's hypothesis , 100-101 . Concluding observations , 101–102 . CHAPTER VI : PHONETIC LAWS , pages 102-130 . Sketch of the views of G. CURTIUS . Three notions are prominent : 1 ) pho- netic laws ; 2 ) analogy ; 3 ) the ...
... speech , but an insight into the origin of inflection was the essential aim of his work . 1 1 ) I have followed Prof. WHITNEY and others in preferring the term " Indo - European " to " Indo - Germanic " , which latter name cannot in ...
... speech also must be neither larger nor smaller than three . It was naturally no easy matter to bring the traditional parts of speech under three heads , and this classification could not be carried out without sophistry . For instance ...
... speech , t being the subject , es the copula and pot the attribute . " Here it is especially noteworthy that not the verb as such , but only the verb be is regarded as the third part of speech . GOTTFRIED HERMANN says ( De emendanda ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Popular passages
References to this book
Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |