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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... Language has established in its more limited areas of research . " We must begin , " as Leibnitz said , " with studying the modern languages which are within our reach , in order to compare them with one another , to discover their ...
... Language has established in its more limited areas of research . " We must begin , " as Leibnitz said , " with studying the modern languages which are within our reach , in order to compare them with one another , to discover their ...
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... language , the Bengali . We there find that the so - called infinitive is formed by te , which te is , at the same time , the termination of the locative singular . Hence the present , Karitechi , I am doing . 1 Cf. Egger , Notions ...
... language , the Bengali . We there find that the so - called infinitive is formed by te , which te is , at the same time , the termination of the locative singular . Hence the present , Karitechi , I am doing . 1 Cf. Egger , Notions ...
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... language , too , must be prepared for different for- mations , even though he confines himself to one stage in the history of language , the inflectional . And if he steps beyond this , the most modern stage , then to apply ...
... language , too , must be prepared for different for- mations , even though he confines himself to one stage in the history of language , the inflectional . And if he steps beyond this , the most modern stage , then to apply ...
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... LANGUAGES . 33 flectional , would be like ignoring the difference be- tween aqueous , igneous , and metamorphic rocks . There are scholars who , as it ... language made of Sanskrit , teeming with Supines and Paulo - pluperfects . Up to 8.
... LANGUAGES . 33 flectional , would be like ignoring the difference be- tween aqueous , igneous , and metamorphic rocks . There are scholars who , as it ... language made of Sanskrit , teeming with Supines and Paulo - pluperfects . Up to 8.
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... language which we have lost , but which was most important during the primitive stages of human speech . The Chinese language commands no more than about 450 distinct sounds , and with them it expresses be- tween 40,000 and 50,000 words ...
... language which we have lost , but which was most important during the primitive stages of human speech . The Chinese language commands no more than about 450 distinct sounds , and with them it expresses be- tween 40,000 and 50,000 words ...
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