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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... guages the idea conveyed by the participle present can be expressed by the oblique case of a verbal noun . Let us now proceed to a more distant , yet to a cognate language , the Bengali . We there find that the so - called infinitive is ...
... guages the idea conveyed by the participle present can be expressed by the oblique case of a verbal noun . Let us now proceed to a more distant , yet to a cognate language , the Bengali . We there find that the so - called infinitive is ...
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... 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 Polynesian dialects ...
... 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 Polynesian dialects ...
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... guages undergo , but he has likewise noted those permutations which take place occasionally only . On the strength of these phonetic laws once estab- lished , words which have hardly one single letter in common have been traced back ...
... guages undergo , but he has likewise noted those permutations which take place occasionally only . On the strength of these phonetic laws once estab- lished , words which have hardly one single letter in common have been traced back ...
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... guage , like Chinese , begins to change and to break out in independent dialects , the results must be very different from those which we observe in Latin as split up into the Romance dialects . In the Romance dialects , however violent ...
... guage , like Chinese , begins to change and to break out in independent dialects , the results must be very different from those which we observe in Latin as split up into the Romance dialects . In the Romance dialects , however violent ...
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... guages have helped us in determining the real and close relationship between Chinese and Cochin- Chinese ? The present indicative is formed in Cochin - Chinese by simply putting the personal pronoun before the root . Thus , - Toy men ...
... guages have helped us in determining the real and close relationship between Chinese and Cochin- Chinese ? The present indicative is formed in Cochin - Chinese by simply putting the personal pronoun before the root . Thus , - Toy men ...
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