Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ... 1861 [and 1863], Volume 2C. Scribner, 1869 |
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... Aryan nor Semitic , and which has thrown out a greater abundance of verbal forms than almost any known language.1 Here the pres- ent is formed by what is called a participle , followed by an auxiliary verb . This participle , however ...
... Aryan nor Semitic , and which has thrown out a greater abundance of verbal forms than almost any known language.1 Here the pres- ent is formed by what is called a participle , followed by an auxiliary verb . This participle , however ...
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... Aryan family of speech , that what is possible in French is possible in Latin , that what Le futur erorico niz ( je tomberai ) offre le même verbe et la même forme passive avec la terminaison co . laquelle est propre à exprimer la ...
... Aryan family of speech , that what is possible in French is possible in Latin , that what Le futur erorico niz ( je tomberai ) offre le même verbe et la même forme passive avec la terminaison co . laquelle est propre à exprimer la ...
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... Aryan languages and the Bask in the formation of their participles should be considered as an entirely exceptional case . Mr. Garnett , however , after establishing the principle that the participle present may be expressed by the ...
... Aryan languages and the Bask in the formation of their participles should be considered as an entirely exceptional case . Mr. Garnett , however , after establishing the principle that the participle present may be expressed by the ...
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... Aryan and Semitic families is chiefly founded . If they did , they would cease to be what they are ; they would be inflectional , not ag- glutinative . - - If languages were all of one and the same texture , they might be unravelled ...
... Aryan and Semitic families is chiefly founded . If they did , they would cease to be what they are ; they would be inflectional , not ag- glutinative . - - If languages were all of one and the same texture , they might be unravelled ...
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... Aryan lan- guages may be applicable to other clusters of speech . Phonetic laws are always useful , but they are not the only tools which the student of language must learn to handle . If we compare the extreme mem- bers of the ...
... Aryan lan- guages may be applicable to other clusters of speech . Phonetic laws are always useful , but they are not the only tools which the student of language must learn to handle . If we compare the extreme mem- bers of the ...
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Agni Alphabet ancient Angiras Anglo-Saxon Aryan languages aspirates Asvins breath bright called conception consonantal consonants cows Curtius dawn deity dental derived dialects distinct divine doubt Dyaus earth English etymology express father French German glottis gods Gothic Grammar Grammatik Greek Grimm Grimm's law guage guttural heaven hence Homer horse hymn idea Indra Italian Kafir Kuhn Kuhn's Zeitschrift labial Latin letters likewise Maruts meaning meant originally metaphor mind modern mother myth mythology nations nature never night noun Old High-German Old Norse philosophers phonetic poets Polynesian pronounced Rig-Veda Roman root Sanskrit Sarama Saranyû Savitar Saxon scholars Science of Language sense skrit Slavonic soft sonant sound speak speech spiritus asper spiritus lenis spoken supposed syllable tenuis Teutonic things thought tion tongue trace Tuisco twins Varuna Veda verb vibrations Vivasvat vowels words Yama Zeus δὲ καὶ τῶν