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... who enliven their discussions by experiments and diagrams . If , with all these
difficulties and drawbacks , I do not shrink from opening to - day this course of
lectures on mere words , on nouns and verbs and particles , if I venture to
address ...
... who enliven their discussions by experiments and diagrams . If , with all these
difficulties and drawbacks , I do not shrink from opening to - day this course of
lectures on mere words , on nouns and verbs and particles , if I venture to
address ...
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It is the grammar and the dictionary which form the subject of his inquiries . These
he consults and subjects to a careful analysis , but he does not encumber his
memory with paradigms of nouns and verbs , or with long lists of words which
have ...
It is the grammar and the dictionary which form the subject of his inquiries . These
he consults and subjects to a careful analysis , but he does not encumber his
memory with paradigms of nouns and verbs , or with long lists of words which
have ...
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Nouns , he thinks , were of less urgent necessity because things could be pointed
at or imitated , whereas mere actions , such as are expressed by verbs , could not
. He therefore supposes that when people saw a wolf coming , they pointed at ...
Nouns , he thinks , were of less urgent necessity because things could be pointed
at or imitated , whereas mere actions , such as are expressed by verbs , could not
. He therefore supposes that when people saw a wolf coming , they pointed at ...
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... 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 ...
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to distinguish between its component parts , between nouns and verbs , between
articles and pronouns , between the nominative and accusative , the active and
passive ? Who invented these terms , and for what purpose were they invented ?
to distinguish between its component parts , between nouns and verbs , between
articles and pronouns , between the nominative and accusative , the active and
passive ? Who invented these terms , and for what purpose were they invented ?
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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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