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 113
... called it the general or predicative case , whereas the Romans spoiled the term by wrongly translating it into genitivus . framework of grammar was finished . Later writers have improved 8 SPREAD OF GREEK GRAMMAR . 118.
... called it the general or predicative case , whereas the Romans spoiled the term by wrongly translating it into genitivus . framework of grammar was finished . Later writers have improved 8 SPREAD OF GREEK GRAMMAR . 118.
Page 251
... in our crucible at the end of a complete grammatical analysis , are of two kinds , namely , Roots predicative and Roots demonstrative . Diversions of Purley , p . 190 . We call root or radical , whatever , in the TERMINATIONS . 251.
... in our crucible at the end of a complete grammatical analysis , are of two kinds , namely , Roots predicative and Roots demonstrative . Diversions of Purley , p . 190 . We call root or radical , whatever , in the TERMINATIONS . 251.
Page 256
... predicative root . In all these words ar is the radical element , all the rest is merely formative . The root ar is called a predicative root because in whatever composition it enters , it predicates one and the same conception ...
... predicative root . In all these words ar is the radical element , all the rest is merely formative . The root ar is called a predicative root because in whatever composition it enters , it predicates one and the same conception ...
Page 263
... predicative power being generally of too indefinite a character to answer the purposes of advancing thought , they were soon en croached upon and almost supplanted by secondary and tertiary radicals . In the secondary roots we can ...
... predicative power being generally of too indefinite a character to answer the purposes of advancing thought , they were soon en croached upon and almost supplanted by secondary and tertiary radicals . In the secondary roots we can ...
Page 268
... predicative roots , and although some of these de- monstrative , or pronominal , or local roots , for all these names have been applied to them , may be traced back to a predicative source , we must admit a small class of independent ...
... predicative roots , and although some of these de- monstrative , or pronominal , or local roots , for all these names have been applied to them , may be traced back to a predicative source , we must admit a small class of independent ...
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