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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... tific inquiry were not inferior , whether in novelty or importance , to the most brilliant discoveries of our age . It was not till I began to write my lectures LECTURE L THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE ONE OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES.
... tific inquiry were not inferior , whether in novelty or importance , to the most brilliant discoveries of our age . It was not till I began to write my lectures LECTURE L THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE ONE OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES.
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... important , nay , for the so- lution of some of our problems , more important , than the poetry of Homer , or the prose of Cicero . We do not want to know languages , we want to know lan- guage ; what language is , how it can form a ...
... important , nay , for the so- lution of some of our problems , more important , than the poetry of Homer , or the prose of Cicero . We do not want to know languages , we want to know lan- guage ; what language is , how it can form a ...
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... importance ; nor is it possible for us , at the very beginning of our inquiry into the nature of language , to enter upon a minute examina- tion of a theory which represents language as a work of human art , and as established by mutual ...
... importance ; nor is it possible for us , at the very beginning of our inquiry into the nature of language , to enter upon a minute examina- tion of a theory which represents language as a work of human art , and as established by mutual ...
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... important , a distinction is henceforth estab- lished between what is substantial or radical , and what is merely formal or grammatical in words . For let us now take another instance , which will make it clearer , how phonetic ...
... important , a distinction is henceforth estab- lished between what is substantial or radical , and what is merely formal or grammatical in words . For let us now take another instance , which will make it clearer , how phonetic ...
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... important ; and the same holds good with regard to all so - called literary languages . It is a mistake to imagine that dialects are every- where corruptions of the literary language . Even in England , 1 the local patois have many ...
... important ; and the same holds good with regard to all so - called literary languages . It is a mistake to imagine that dialects are every- where corruptions of the literary language . Even in England , 1 the local patois have many ...
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