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 58
... Italy , France , and Spain , must be considered as artificial , rather than as natural forms of speech . The real and ... Italian dialects have been reduced to writing , and made known by the press.1 Champol- lion - Figeac reckons the ...
... Italy , France , and Spain , must be considered as artificial , rather than as natural forms of speech . The real and ... Italian dialects have been reduced to writing , and made known by the press.1 Champol- lion - Figeac reckons the ...
Page 59
... Italian or French , and we shall then see at once how abundant the growth of dialects ! The Friesian , which is spoken on a small area on the Frisian . north - western coast of Germany , between the Scheldt and Jutland , and on the ...
... Italian or French , and we shall then see at once how abundant the growth of dialects ! The Friesian , which is spoken on a small area on the Frisian . north - western coast of Germany , between the Scheldt and Jutland , and on the ...
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... Italian a new vital principle . Not a single radical element was newly created for the formation of Italian . Italian is Latin in a new form . Italian is modern Latin , or Latin ancient Italian . The names mother and daughter only mark ...
... Italian a new vital principle . Not a single radical element was newly created for the formation of Italian . Italian is Latin in a new form . Italian is modern Latin , or Latin ancient Italian . The names mother and daughter only mark ...
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... Italian are not to be found in the classical literature of Rome , but in the popular dialects of Italy . English did not spring from the Anglo - Saxon of Wessex only , but from the dia- lects spoken in every part of Great Britain ...
... Italian are not to be found in the classical literature of Rome , but in the popular dialects of Italy . English did not spring from the Anglo - Saxon of Wessex only , but from the dia- lects spoken in every part of Great Britain ...
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... Italian dello , del , and the French du . The attempts of single grammarians and purists to improve language are perfectly bootless ; and we shall probably hear no more of schemes to prune languages of their irregularities . It is very ...
... Italian dello , del , and the French du . The attempts of single grammarians and purists to improve language are perfectly bootless ; and we shall probably hear no more of schemes to prune languages of their irregularities . It is very ...
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