Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ... 1861 [and 1863].C. Scribner andcompany, 1866 |
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Page 46
... person singular in th is now entirely replaced by 8. No one now says he liveth , but only he lives . Sev- eral of the irregular imperfects and participles have as- sumed a new form . No one now uses he spake , and he drave , instead of ...
... person singular in th is now entirely replaced by 8. No one now says he liveth , but only he lives . Sev- eral of the irregular imperfects and participles have as- sumed a new form . No one now uses he spake , and he drave , instead of ...
Page 64
... persons of the verb , that characteristic feature of Turanian speech had lately broken out in the spoken dialects of the Buriates and in the Tungusic idioms near Njertschinsk in Siberia . One more observation of the same character from ...
... persons of the verb , that characteristic feature of Turanian speech had lately broken out in the spoken dialects of the Buriates and in the Tungusic idioms near Njertschinsk in Siberia . One more observation of the same character from ...
Page 71
... persons here present who could tell the exact meaning of a horse's poll , crest , withers , dock , ham- string , cannon , pastern , coronet , arm , jowl , and muz- zle . Where the literary language speaks of the young of all sorts of ...
... persons here present who could tell the exact meaning of a horse's poll , crest , withers , dock , ham- string , cannon , pastern , coronet , arm , jowl , and muz- zle . Where the literary language speaks of the young of all sorts of ...
Page 75
... person , sei , instead of es , is likewise infantine grammar . So are the Wallachian súntemu , we are , súnteti , you are , which owe their origin to the third person plural súnt , they are . And what shall we say of such monsters as 7 ...
... person , sei , instead of es , is likewise infantine grammar . So are the Wallachian súntemu , we are , súnteti , you are , which owe their origin to the third person plural súnt , they are . And what shall we say of such monsters as 7 ...
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... person plural , sind , has by a false analogy been transferred to the first and second persons ; and instead of the modern English , we are you are they are we find in Old Norse . ër - um ër - udh ër - u . in Gothic . sijum1 sijuth sind ...
... person plural , sind , has by a false analogy been transferred to the first and second persons ; and instead of the modern English , we are you are they are we find in Old Norse . ër - um ër - udh ër - u . in Gothic . sijum1 sijuth sind ...
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