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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... LANGUAGE ONE OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES 11 LECTURE II . THE GROWTH OF LANGUAGE IN CONTRADISTINCTION TO THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE . 38 LECTURE III . THE EMPIRICAL STAGE IN THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE .. 87 LECTURE IV . THE CLASSIFICATORY STAGE ...
... LANGUAGE ONE OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES 11 LECTURE II . THE GROWTH OF LANGUAGE IN CONTRADISTINCTION TO THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE . 38 LECTURE III . THE EMPIRICAL STAGE IN THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE .. 87 LECTURE IV . THE CLASSIFICATORY STAGE ...
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... language has been called in to settle some of the most perplexing political and social questions . “ Nations and languages against dynasties and treaties , " this is what has remodelled , and will remodel still more , the map of Europe ...
... language has been called in to settle some of the most perplexing political and social questions . “ Nations and languages against dynasties and treaties , " this is what has remodelled , and will remodel still more , the map of Europe ...
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... language were chiefly schol- ars or philologists , and that they based their inquiries into the nature and laws of language on a comparison of as many facts as they could collect within their own special spheres of study . Neither in ...
... language were chiefly schol- ars or philologists , and that they based their inquiries into the nature and laws of language on a comparison of as many facts as they could collect within their own special spheres of study . Neither in ...
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... language , languages are not treated as a means ; language itself becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry .. Dialects which have never pro- duced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks of the Hottentots ...
... language , languages are not treated as a means ; language itself becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry .. Dialects which have never pro- duced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks of the Hottentots ...
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... languages as you know Greek or Latin , French or German . In that sense I know indeed very few languages , and I never aspired to the fame of a Mithridates or a Mezzofanti . It is impossible for a student of language to acquire a prac ...
... languages as you know Greek or Latin , French or German . In that sense I know indeed very few languages , and I never aspired to the fame of a Mithridates or a Mezzofanti . It is impossible for a student of language to acquire a prac ...
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