Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, and June, 1861Scribner, Armstrong, 1874 - 4 pages |
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... distinguished modern philosophers you will find that whenever they speak of language , they take it for granted that lan- guage is a human invention , that words are artificial signs , and that the varieties of human speech arose from ...
... distinguished modern philosophers you will find that whenever they speak of language , they take it for granted that lan- guage is a human invention , that words are artificial signs , and that the varieties of human speech arose from ...
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... distinguished , though they may be at work simultaneously . These two processes I call , 1. Dialectical Regeneration . 2. Phonetic Decay . I begin with the second , as the more obvious , though in reality its operations are mostly ...
... distinguished , though they may be at work simultaneously . These two processes I call , 1. Dialectical Regeneration . 2. Phonetic Decay . I begin with the second , as the more obvious , though in reality its operations are mostly ...
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... distinguished from the dialects of families , produce , on a larger scale , the languages of a confederation of clans , of nascent colonies , of rising nationalities . Before there is a na- tional language , there have always been ...
... distinguished from the dialects of families , produce , on a larger scale , the languages of a confederation of clans , of nascent colonies , of rising nationalities . Before there is a na- tional language , there have always been ...
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... distinguished the various parts of speech , invented proper technical terms for the various functions of words , observed the more or less correct usage of certain poets , marked the difference between obsolete and classical forms , and ...
... distinguished the various parts of speech , invented proper technical terms for the various functions of words , observed the more or less correct usage of certain poets , marked the difference between obsolete and classical forms , and ...
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... distinguished between the sons of the father , and the sons of the mother , the genitives would mark the class or genus to which the sons re- spectively belonged . They would answer the same pur- pose as the adjectives , paternal and ...
... distinguished between the sons of the father , and the sons of the mother , the genitives would mark the class or genus to which the sons re- spectively belonged . They would answer the same pur- pose as the adjectives , paternal and ...
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