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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... existence of spoken dialects is hardly noticed by ancient writers . We are told , indeed , by Pliny , 1 that in Colchis there were more than three hundred tribes speaking different dialects ; and that the Romans , in order to carry on ...
... existence of spoken dialects is hardly noticed by ancient writers . We are told , indeed , by Pliny , 1 that in Colchis there were more than three hundred tribes speaking different dialects ; and that the Romans , in order to carry on ...
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... existence . Though we cannot fully enter , at present , on the prob- lem of the origin of language , yet this we can clearly see , that , whatever the origin of language was , its first tendency must have been towards an unbounded va ...
... existence . Though we cannot fully enter , at present , on the prob- lem of the origin of language , yet this we can clearly see , that , whatever the origin of language was , its first tendency must have been towards an unbounded va ...
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... existence . It may still live on for a long time , but while it seems to be the leading shoot , it is in reality but a broken and withering branch , slowly falling from the stock from which it sprang . The sources of Italian are not to ...
... existence . It may still live on for a long time , but while it seems to be the leading shoot , it is in reality but a broken and withering branch , slowly falling from the stock from which it sprang . The sources of Italian are not to ...
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... existence . In the growth of the modern Romance languages out of Latin , we can perceive not only a general ten- dency to simplification , not only a natural disposition to avoid the exertion which the pronunciation of cer- tain ...
... existence . In the growth of the modern Romance languages out of Latin , we can perceive not only a general ten- dency to simplification , not only a natural disposition to avoid the exertion which the pronunciation of cer- tain ...
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... , and Scot- land . A language , as long as it is spoken by any- body , lives and has its substantive existence . The last 80 LANGUAGE INDEPENDENT OF HISTORICAL EVENTS . old woman that LANGUAGE INDEPENDENT OF HISTORICAL EVENTS . 79.
... , and Scot- land . A language , as long as it is spoken by any- body , lives and has its substantive existence . The last 80 LANGUAGE INDEPENDENT OF HISTORICAL EVENTS . old woman that LANGUAGE INDEPENDENT OF HISTORICAL EVENTS . 79.
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