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 85
... Teutonic workmanship . What may now be called grammar in English is little more than the termina- tions of the genitive singular , and nominative plural of nouns , the degrees of comparison , and a few of the persons and tenses of the ...
... Teutonic workmanship . What may now be called grammar in English is little more than the termina- tions of the genitive singular , and nominative plural of nouns , the degrees of comparison , and a few of the persons and tenses of the ...
Page 86
... Teutonic stem of the Aryan family of speech . In an- cient and less matured languages , grammar , or the formal part of human speech , is far more abundantly developed than in English ; and it is , therefore , a much safer guide for ...
... Teutonic stem of the Aryan family of speech . In an- cient and less matured languages , grammar , or the formal part of human speech , is far more abundantly developed than in English ; and it is , therefore , a much safer guide for ...
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... Teutonic language , we see at once that Gothic , too , is a modern language , and that it must have passed 1 " Goddspell onn Ennglissh nemmnedd iss God word , annd god ti þennde , God errnde , " & c .. - Ormulum , pref . 157 . " And ...
... Teutonic language , we see at once that Gothic , too , is a modern language , and that it must have passed 1 " Goddspell onn Ennglissh nemmnedd iss God word , annd god ti þennde , God errnde , " & c .. - Ormulum , pref . 157 . " And ...
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... Teutonic : he derives , however , Greek from Hebrew . I. I. Scaliger , in his " Diatriba de Europæorum Linguis " ( Opuscula varia : Parisiis , 1610 ) , p . 119 , distinguishes eleven classes : Latin , Greek , Teutonic , Slavonic ...
... Teutonic : he derives , however , Greek from Hebrew . I. I. Scaliger , in his " Diatriba de Europæorum Linguis " ( Opuscula varia : Parisiis , 1610 ) , p . 119 , distinguishes eleven classes : Latin , Greek , Teutonic , Slavonic ...
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... Teutonic Grammar , " a work which has truly been called colossal . Its publication occupied nearly twenty years , from 1819 to 1837. We ought , likewise , to mention here the name of an eminent Dane , Erasmus Rask , who devoted himself ...
... Teutonic Grammar , " a work which has truly been called colossal . Its publication occupied nearly twenty years , from 1819 to 1837. We ought , likewise , to mention here the name of an eminent Dane , Erasmus Rask , who devoted himself ...
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