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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... French and Italian , of Greek and Latin , of Lithu anian and Sanskrit , of Hebrew and Arabic , has been established , is the most satisfactory ; but such evi- dence is possible only in inflectional languages that have passed their ...
... French and Italian , of Greek and Latin , of Lithu anian and Sanskrit , of Hebrew and Arabic , has been established , is the most satisfactory ; but such evi- dence is possible only in inflectional languages that have passed their ...
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... French , there always remain a few fibres by which they hang together . It might be difficult to recognize the French plier , to fold , to turn , in the Portuguese chegar , to arrive , yet we trace plier back to plicare , and chegar to ...
... French , there always remain a few fibres by which they hang together . It might be difficult to recognize the French plier , to fold , to turn , in the Portuguese chegar , to arrive , yet we trace plier back to plicare , and chegar to ...
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... French was a dialect of French , though spoken by Saxons at a Norman court . There was a native language of Cochin- China , the Annamitic , ' which forms , as it were , the Saxon of that country on which the Chinese , like the Norman ...
... French was a dialect of French , though spoken by Saxons at a Norman court . There was a native language of Cochin- China , the Annamitic , ' which forms , as it were , the Saxon of that country on which the Chinese , like the Norman ...
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... French , we still see in the s of the plural a remnant of the Latin paradigm . We can trace the one back to the other . But in Chinese , where the plural is formed by the addition of some word meaning " mul- DIALECTIC REGENERATION . 39.
... French , we still see in the s of the plural a remnant of the Latin paradigm . We can trace the one back to the other . But in Chinese , where the plural is formed by the addition of some word meaning " mul- DIALECTIC REGENERATION . 39.
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... French 310 different terminations for the simple tenses of the ten regular conjugations , 1755 for the thirty - nine irregular conjugations , and 200 for the auxiliary verbs , a sum total of 2165 ter- minations , which must be learnt by ...
... French 310 different terminations for the simple tenses of the ten regular conjugations , 1755 for the thirty - nine irregular conjugations , and 200 for the auxiliary verbs , a sum total of 2165 ter- minations , which must be learnt by ...
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