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Page 48
Thus the western Romance dialects , Spanish and Portuguese , to1 As several of
my reviewers have found fault with the monk for using the genitive neutri , instead
of neutrius , I beg to refer to Priscianus , l . vi . c . i . and c . vii . The expression ...
Thus the western Romance dialects , Spanish and Portuguese , to1 As several of
my reviewers have found fault with the monk for using the genitive neutri , instead
of neutrius , I beg to refer to Priscianus , l . vi . c . i . and c . vii . The expression ...
Page 74
Granted , for instance , that the loss of the Latin terminations was the natural
result of a more careless pronunciation ; granted that the modern sign of the
French genitive du is a natural corruption of the Latin de illo , - yet the choice of
de ...
Granted , for instance , that the loss of the Latin terminations was the natural
result of a more careless pronunciation ; granted that the modern sign of the
French genitive du is a natural corruption of the Latin de illo , - yet the choice of
de ...
Page 75
own . de illo as the exponent of the genitive ; and change it into the Italian dello ,
del , and the French du . The attempts of single grammarians and purists to
improve language are perfectly bootless ; and we shall probably hear no more of
...
own . de illo as the exponent of the genitive ; and change it into the Italian dello ,
del , and the French du . The attempts of single grammarians and purists to
improve language are perfectly bootless ; and we shall probably hear no more of
...
Page 85
... yet whatever there is left of grammar in English bears unmistakable traces of
Teutonic workmanship . What may now be called grammar in English is little
more than the terminations of the genitive singular , and nominative plural of
nouns ...
... yet whatever there is left of grammar in English bears unmistakable traces of
Teutonic workmanship . What may now be called grammar in English is little
more than the terminations of the genitive singular , and nominative plural of
nouns ...
Page 111
How did these words , genitive case , come to India ? They came from England ,
they had come to England from Rome , to Rome from Alexandria , to Alexandria
from Athens . At Athens , the term case , or ptõsis , had a philosophical meaning ...
How did these words , genitive case , come to India ? They came from England ,
they had come to England from Rome , to Rome from Alexandria , to Alexandria
from Athens . At Athens , the term case , or ptõsis , had a philosophical meaning ...
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| Title | Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Volume 1 Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Friedrich Max Müller |
| Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Publisher | C. Scribner, 1866 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 12 Nov 2009 |
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