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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... verb , 92-99 . Can we distinguish different periods in the primitive 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 ...
... verbs and in the forms of grammar , than could have been produced by accident ; so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source , which , perhaps , no longer exists ...
... verb , gradually extended over the whole language , and of thus demonstrating for all time what JONES , SCHLEGEL and others had only suspected or affirmed . This demonstration will , without doubt , be regarded in the future as the ...
... verb 1 ) : " Among all the languages known to us " , he says on page 7 , " the sacred language of the Hindus shows ... verb , whereupon the stem - syllable and the abstract verb share the grammatical functions of the verb . " This ...
... verb be . II . Smaller parts of speech [ Redetheilchen ] : a . Prepositions . b . Conjunctions . c . Original adverbs . III . Parts of speech and smaller parts of speech : Pronouns . GOTTFRIED HERMANN is convinced , as well as BERNHARDI ...
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |