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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... 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 on more general ground , and it would perhaps have been better if here I ...
... whole year . So long a delay might be fatal to the useful- ness of a translation , in the case of a work which aimed at a systematic exposition of the whole science of comparative phi- lology , down to the latest development of its ...
... , who was so kind as to read over the whole translation , and to offer many valuable hints and suggestions . Leipzig , Dec. 1881 . E. CHANNING . CONTENTS . I. HISTORICAL PART , Chapters I - IV XII TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE .
... 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 epoch - making achievement of BOPP's ...
... whole word - family , and leads us back to the simple origin of the first root . On the other hand , in languages which instead of inflection have only affixes , the same cannot be said of the roots ; they are no fruitful seed , only a ...
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |