A compendium of the comparative grammar of the Indo-European, Sanskrit, Greek and Latin languages: By August Schleicher, Part 1

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Trübner & Company, 1874 - 263 pages

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Page 129 - But these provincial synods do not appear, as a constant and regular institution, fixed to definite times, until about the end of the second or the beginning of the third century...
Page 5 - All the languages which are derived from one original-language form together a class of speech or speech-stem; these again are sub-divided into families or branches of speech. IV. The name of Indo-European has been given to a distinct set of languages belonging to the Asiatico-European division of the earth, and of a constitution so consistent internally, and so different from all other languages, that it is clearly and undoubtedly derived from one common original language. Within this Indo-European...
Page iii - COMPENDIUM OF THE COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR OF THE INDOEUROPEAN, SANSKRIT, GREEK, AND LATIN LANGUAGES. By August Schleicher. Translated from the Third German Edition, by Herbert Bendall, BA, Chr. Coll., Camb. 8vo. Part I., Phonology. Pp. 184, cloth. 1874. 7s. 6d. Part II., Morphology.
Page 8 - The length of the lines shows the duration of the periods, their distances from one another, the degrees of relationship. Note. — In the present work an attempt is made to set forth the inferred Indo-European original language side by side with its really existent derived languages. Besides the advantages offered by such a plan, in setting immediately before the eyes of the student the final results of the investigation in a more concrete form, and thereby rendering easier his insight into the...
Page 2 - There are — 1. Languages which are simply composed of invariable disjointed meaning-sounds, Monosyllabic, eg Chinese, Annamese, Siamese, Burmese. Such sounds we denote by R (radix). The Indo-European language would be in this stage of development when the word ai-mi (I go, et/w) was sounded not so, but as f or i ma (formula _R, or R+ r).
Page 1 - ... same original tongue, and the arrangement of these classes according to a natural system. In proportion to the remainder but few speechstems have hitherto been accurately investigated, so that the solution of this chief problem of the science must be looked for only in the future. By grammar we mean the scientific comprehension and explanation of the sound, the form, the function of words and their parts, and the construction of sentences. Grammar therefore treats of the knowledge of sounds,...
Page 1 - Grammar forms one part of the science of language : this science is itself a part of the natural history of Man. Its method is in substance that of natural science generally; it consists in accurate investigation of our object and in conclusions founded upon that investigation. One of the chief problems of the science of language is the inquiry into, and description of the classes of...
Page 2 - Languages which can link to these invariable sounds sounds of relation, either before, or after, or in the middle, or in more than one place at once [denoted here as s. (suffix), p. (prefix), i. (infix)]. These are Confixative languages, eg Finnish, Tatar, Dekhan, Basque, the languages of the aborigines of the New World, of South Africa (Bantu), and most languages in fact. In this step of development the word ai-mi would be »/ i-ma or i-mi.[ R*) • 3.
Page 2 - ... a language' (of sound, form, function, and sentence), and this again may be likewise as well general as more or less special. The grammar of the Indo-European languages is therefore a special grammar : because it treats of these languages as products of growth, and exhibits their earlier and earliest gradations, and would therefore be more accurately called a special historical grammar of Indo-European languages.
Page 2 - Note 1. — By comparative grammar is meant not that grammar which is merely descriptive, but that which throws light on speech-forms as far as possible, because as a rule it is not confined to the treatment of any one particular language. Note 2. — The following work embraces only two parts, viz. scientific treatment of sounds and of forms. Indo-European function and...

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