The Science of Language: Founded on Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1861 and 1863, Volume 2Longmans, Green and Company, 1899 |
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... dialects of ancient Greece , ransacked as they have been by classical scholars , such as Maittaire , Giese , and Ahrens , will amply reward a fresh battue of the comparative philologist . Their forms , which 1 An essay ' On some leading ...
... dialects of ancient Greece , ransacked as they have been by classical scholars , such as Maittaire , Giese , and Ahrens , will amply reward a fresh battue of the comparative philologist . Their forms , which 1 An essay ' On some leading ...
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... dialects now spoken by the nomad tribes of Asia , Africa , America , and the islands of the Pacific , no scholar need be afraid for some generations to come that there will be no language left for him to conquer . General Principles of ...
... dialects now spoken by the nomad tribes of Asia , Africa , America , and the islands of the Pacific , no scholar need be afraid for some generations to come that there will be no language left for him to conquer . General Principles of ...
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... dialects , and it is to them that we must look , if we wish for a com- pass to guide us through the most violent ... dialect , if well examined and analysed , will teach us more than the most ingenious speculations on the nature of ...
... dialects , and it is to them that we must look , if we wish for a com- pass to guide us through the most violent ... dialect , if well examined and analysed , will teach us more than the most ingenious speculations on the nature of ...
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... dialects , but not according to those of one out of many High - German dialects which are supposed to contain some admixture of Low - German elements . Secondly , what has to be explained is not only the consonantal change from ende to ...
... dialects , but not according to those of one out of many High - German dialects which are supposed to contain some admixture of Low - German elements . Secondly , what has to be explained is not only the consonantal change from ende to ...
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... dialects by the same criteria by which the common descent of Greek and Latin is established ; or to try to discover Sanskrit in the Malay dialects , or Greek in the idioms of the Cau- casian mountaineers . The whole crust of the earth ...
... dialects by the same criteria by which the common descent of Greek and Latin is established ; or to try to discover Sanskrit in the Malay dialects , or Greek in the idioms of the Cau- casian mountaineers . The whole crust of the earth ...
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