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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... REASON PAGE 9 53 LECTURE III . THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ALPHABET 106 LECTURE IV . PHONETIC CHANGE 174 LECTURE V. 213 GRIMM'S LAW . LECTURE VI . ON THE PRINCIPLES OF ETYMOLOGY 254 LECTURE VII . ON THE POWERS OF ROOTS 313 METAPHOR LECTURE VIII ...
... REASON PAGE 9 53 LECTURE III . THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ALPHABET 106 LECTURE IV . PHONETIC CHANGE 174 LECTURE V. 213 GRIMM'S LAW . LECTURE VI . ON THE PRINCIPLES OF ETYMOLOGY 254 LECTURE VII . ON THE POWERS OF ROOTS 313 METAPHOR LECTURE VIII ...
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... reason , all the more fascinating . It is a young and a growing science that puts forth new strength with every year , that opens new prospects , new fields of enterprise on every side , and rewards its students with richer harvests ...
... reason , all the more fascinating . It is a young and a growing science that puts forth new strength with every year , that opens new prospects , new fields of enterprise on every side , and rewards its students with richer harvests ...
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... reason to believe it to be so as to the Latin and other more modern tongues , -in short , as to all European languages , old and young . " And he proceeds : " The second dis- covery which I believe I have made , and with which the ...
... reason to believe it to be so as to the Latin and other more modern tongues , -in short , as to all European languages , old and young . " And he proceeds : " The second dis- covery which I believe I have made , and with which the ...
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... reason of this rule ? Simply this , that chantant , if used as a participle , is not the Latin participle present cantans , but the so - called gerund , that is to say , the oblique case of a verbal noun , the Latin cantando ...
... reason of this rule ? Simply this , that chantant , if used as a participle , is not the Latin participle present cantans , but the so - called gerund , that is to say , the oblique case of a verbal noun , the Latin cantando ...
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... reason , the Amagqunukwebi substitute immela for isitshetshe , the general term for knife.1 Here , then , we may perceive two things : first , the influence which a mere whim , if it once becomes stereotyped , may exercise on the whole ...
... reason , the Amagqunukwebi substitute immela for isitshetshe , the general term for knife.1 Here , then , we may perceive two things : first , the influence which a mere whim , if it once becomes stereotyped , may exercise on the whole ...
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