Transactions of the American Philological Association, Volumes 11-12Ginn & Company, 1881 |
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... Semitic flexion , and appears most fully with a vowel attacht , which is usually a , as in Arabic una , whence probably the Aramaic uno before suffixes , but sometimes u , as in Assyrian unu ; before suffixes Aramaic shows the full form ...
... Semitic flexion , and appears most fully with a vowel attacht , which is usually a , as in Arabic una , whence probably the Aramaic uno before suffixes , but sometimes u , as in Assyrian unu ; before suffixes Aramaic shows the full form ...
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... Semitic lan- guage had the forms umu , umi , uma and unu , uni , una , out of which hav been selected those that we now find in use . Our data do not suffice to go back of this into the origin of the n and m , and determin whether they ...
... Semitic lan- guage had the forms umu , umi , uma and unu , uni , una , out of which hav been selected those that we now find in use . Our data do not suffice to go back of this into the origin of the n and m , and determin whether they ...
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... Semitic monarchy , earliest felt the effects of this friction , and after them came at some interval the Assyrians . The Aramaeans never founded an empire , but their language became , partly from their geographical position between the ...
... Semitic monarchy , earliest felt the effects of this friction , and after them came at some interval the Assyrians . The Aramaeans never founded an empire , but their language became , partly from their geographical position between the ...
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... Semitic , Aryan , and Turanian races , all languages might forever have remained ephemeral , answering the purposes of every generation that comes and goes , struggling on , now gaining , now losing , sometimes acquiring a certain perma ...
... Semitic , Aryan , and Turanian races , all languages might forever have remained ephemeral , answering the purposes of every generation that comes and goes , struggling on , now gaining , now losing , sometimes acquiring a certain perma ...
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... Semitic speech has , to be sure , been of much slower change ; but differences in the rate of alteration have been characteristic of different languages all the world over , outside the " family " lines as well as within them . And what ...
... Semitic speech has , to be sure , been of much slower change ; but differences in the rate of alteration have been characteristic of different languages all the world over , outside the " family " lines as well as within them . And what ...
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Page 80 - His quidam signis atque haec exempla secuti Esse apibus partem divinae mentis et haustus 220 Aetherios dixere ; deum namque ire per omnes Terrasque tractusque maris caelumque profundum...
Page 95 - Teutonic speech, back to about the seventh century after Christ. We must not suppose that before that time there was one common Teutonic language spoken by all German tribes, and that it afterwards diverged into two streams, — the High and Low. There never was a common, uniform, Teutonic language ; nor is there any evidence to show that there existed at any time a uniform High-German or Low-German language, from which all High-German and Low-German dialects are respectively derived.
Page 4 - There is hardly a language which in one sense may not be called a mixed language. No nation or tribe was ever so completely isolated as not to admit the importation 'of a certain number of foreign words.
Page 100 - Now the reason why scholars have discovered no more than these two or three great families of speech is very simple. There were no more, and we cannot make more. Families of languages are very peculiar formations ; they are, and they must be, the exception, not the rule, in the growth of language.
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Page 3 - In the course of these considerations, we had to lay down two axioms, to which we shall frequently have to appeal in the progress of our investigations. The first declares grammar to be the most essential element, and therefore the ground of classification in all languages which have produced a definite grammatical articulation ; the second denies the possibility of a mixed language.
Page 109 - Since, lie pointed out, each person has two parents, four grandparents, eight greatgrandparents, and so on, the numbers doubling with each generation, and becoming, even in the limited period between us and the patriarch Joseph, expressible only by a row of figures reaching clear across the page, it follows that there must have been vastly more people living some thousands of years ago than there are at present. Here we have, rea,dy made and provided, tlic infinitely numerous " confederacies, clans,...
Page 80 - Greek philosophic writers as prevailed at the end of the Republic and at the beginning of the Augustan age.
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Page 18 - Pa. Professor Basil L. Gildersleeve, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Professor William W. Goodwin, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.