Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February, March, April and May, 1863, Volume 2C. Scribner, 1865 - 622 pages |
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... elements , and deduce from them some of the laws that determine their origin , govern their growth , necessitate their decay ; we can treat them , in fact , in exactly the same spirit in which the geolo- gist treats his stones and ...
... elements , and deduce from them some of the laws that determine their origin , govern their growth , necessitate their decay ; we can treat them , in fact , in exactly the same spirit in which the geolo- gist treats his stones and ...
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... element of language which we have lost , but which was most important during the primitive stages of human speech.2 The Chinese language commands no more than about 450 distinct sounds , and with them it expresses be- tween 40,000 and ...
... element of language which we have lost , but which was most important during the primitive stages of human speech.2 The Chinese language commands no more than about 450 distinct sounds , and with them it expresses be- tween 40,000 and ...
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... element in society , the greater the influence of their language on the lan- guage of a family or a clan , a village or a town . The cases , however , that are mentioned of women speaking a totally different language from the men ...
... element in society , the greater the influence of their language on the lan- guage of a family or a clan , a village or a town . The cases , however , that are mentioned of women speaking a totally different language from the men ...
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... elements , of articulate speech , never exist without meaning . Articulate sound is always an utterance , a bringing out of something that is within , a manifestation or revelation of something that wants to manifest and to reveal ...
... elements , of articulate speech , never exist without meaning . Articulate sound is always an utterance , a bringing out of something that is within , a manifestation or revelation of something that wants to manifest and to reveal ...
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... ELEMENT , as his seventh genus . Of this there are several differences , fire , air , water , earth , each comprehending a number of minor species . Next comes SUBSTANCE INANIMATE , divided into vegetative and sensitive . The vegetative ...
... ELEMENT , as his seventh genus . Of this there are several differences , fire , air , water , earth , each comprehending a number of minor species . Next comes SUBSTANCE INANIMATE , divided into vegetative and sensitive . The vegetative ...
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Agni alphabet ancient Angiras Anglo-Saxon Aryan languages aspirates Asvins breath bright called conception consonantal consonants cows Curtius dawn deity dental derived dialects distinct divine doubt Dyaus earth English etymology express father French German glottis gods Gothic Grammar Grammatik Greek Grimm Grimm's law guage guttural heaven hence Homer horse hymn idea Indra Italian Kafir Kuhn Kuhn's Zeitschrift labial Latin letters likewise Maruts meaning meant originally metaphor mind modern mother myth mythology nations nature never night noun Old High-German Old Norse philosophers phonetic poets Polynesian pronounced Rig-Veda Roman root Sanskrit Sarama Saranyû Savitar Saxon scholars Science of Language sense skrit Slavonic soft sonant sound speak speech spiritus asper spiritus lenis spoken supposed syllable tenuis Teutonic things thought tion tongue trace Tuisco twins Varuna Veda verb vibrations Vivasvat vowels words Yama Zeus δὲ καὶ τῶν