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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... literary languages . It is a mistake to imagine that dialects are every- where corruptions of the literary language . Even in England , 1 the local patois have many forms which are more primitive than the language of Shakespeare , and ...
... literary languages . It is a mistake to imagine that dialects are every- where corruptions of the literary language . Even in England , 1 the local patois have many forms which are more primitive than the language of Shakespeare , and ...
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... literary dialects alone supply us with ma- terials , whereas the very 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 ...
... literary dialects alone supply us with ma- terials , whereas the very 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 ...
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... literary language of the Mongolians has no terminations for the persons of the verb , that characteristic feature of Turanian speech had lately broken out in the spoken dialects of the Buriates and in the Tungusic idioms near ...
... literary language of the Mongolians has no terminations for the persons of the verb , that characteristic feature of Turanian speech had lately broken out in the spoken dialects of the Buriates and in the Tungusic idioms near ...
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... literary languages . The language of the father became the language of a family ; the lan- guage of a family that of a clan . In one and the same clan different families would preserve among themselves their own familiar forms and ...
... literary languages . The language of the father became the language of a family ; the lan- guage of a family that of a clan . In one and the same clan different families would preserve among themselves their own familiar forms and ...
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... literary age , and at a distance of thousands of years from those early fathers of language , do not speak at home as we speak in public . The same circumstances which give rise to the formal language of a clan , as distinguished from ...
... literary age , and at a distance of thousands of years from those early fathers of language , do not speak at home as we speak in public . The same circumstances which give rise to the formal language of a clan , as distinguished from ...
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