Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ... 1861 [and 1863], Volume 1C. Scribner, 1869 |
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Page 62
... Amé- rique Centrale . ( " Il ne pouvait se servir , en 1833 , d'un vocabulaire com- posé avec beaucoup de soin dix ans auparavant . " ) national empires . Hervas reduces , indeed , all the 62 DIALECTICAL REGENERATION .
... Amé- rique Centrale . ( " Il ne pouvait se servir , en 1833 , d'un vocabulaire com- posé avec beaucoup de soin dix ans auparavant . " ) national empires . Hervas reduces , indeed , all the 62 DIALECTICAL REGENERATION .
Page 63
... empires . Hervas reduces , indeed , all the dialects of America to eleven families1 - four for the south , and seven for the north ; but this could be done only by the same careful and minute com- parison which enables us to class the ...
... empires . Hervas reduces , indeed , all the dialects of America to eleven families1 - four for the south , and seven for the north ; but this could be done only by the same careful and minute com- parison which enables us to class the ...
Page 136
... empire of your Majesty and on its frontiers , should be reduced to writing ; also that dic- tionaries , or at least small vocabularies , should be col- lected , and translations be procured in such languages of the Ten Commandments ...
... empire of your Majesty and on its frontiers , should be reduced to writing ; also that dic- tionaries , or at least small vocabularies , should be col- lected , and translations be procured in such languages of the Ten Commandments ...
Page 143
... empire steadily in view.1 Still greater luck was in store for the science of lan- guage . Having been patronized by Cæsar at Rome , it found a still more devoted patroness in the great Cesa- rina of the North , Catherine the Great ...
... empire steadily in view.1 Still greater luck was in store for the science of lan- guage . Having been patronized by Cæsar at Rome , it found a still more devoted patroness in the great Cesa- rina of the North , Catherine the Great ...
Page 184
... empire . They had to leave their country , being persecuted on account of their Christianity . Ulfilas was the leader of the faith- ful flock , and came to Constantine , ( not Constantius , ) as ambassador . This must have been before ...
... empire . They had to leave their country , being persecuted on account of their Christianity . Ulfilas was the leader of the faith- ful flock , and came to Constantine , ( not Constantius , ) as ambassador . This must have been before ...
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agglutinative ancient Anglo-Saxon animals Arabic Armenia Arya Aryan family Asia beginning Brahmans branch brutes called Celtic Celts century Chinese classical common origin comparative declension derived dialects distinct distinguished doubt elements empire English English Language express family of speech Finnic French genealogical genitive German Gothic grammar grammatical forms growth guage Hebrew Hervas High-German human speech idea India inflectional instance Italian Latin laws lectures Leibniz literary literature means ment modern Mongolic nature never nouns origin of language Persian philology philosophers phonetic corruption plough plural predicative preserved primitive Prof pronouns Provençal race Roman Rome root Sanskrit Saxon scholars science of language Semitic sense skrit Slavonic speak spoken stage Stanislas Julien Strabo supposed Tataric terminations Teutonic tion traced translation tribes Tungusic Turanian Turanian family Turanian languages Turkic Turkish Ulfilas Veda verb volume vowels words Zend Zend-avesta Zoroaster