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 60
... look backward in the history of language the smaller is their number , and the less definite their features . All multiplicity arises grad- ually from an original unity . " So it seems , indeed , if we build our theories of language ...
... look backward in the history of language the smaller is their number , and the less definite their features . All multiplicity arises grad- ually from an original unity . " So it seems , indeed , if we build our theories of language ...
Page 66
... look again at what is commonly called the history , but what ought to be called , the natural growth , of language , and we shall easily see that it consists chiefly in the play of the two principles which - we have just examined ...
... look again at what is commonly called the history , but what ought to be called , the natural growth , of language , and we shall easily see that it consists chiefly in the play of the two principles which - we have just examined ...
Page 89
... look for the early traces of the first or empirical stage . And here it might seem doubtful what was the real work to be assigned to this stage . What can be meant by the empirical treat- ment of language ? Who were the men that did for ...
... look for the early traces of the first or empirical stage . And here it might seem doubtful what was the real work to be assigned to this stage . What can be meant by the empirical treat- ment of language ? Who were the men that did for ...
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... look in vain for any Greek in the Punic language , lived , as Humboldt supposes ( Cosmos , vol . ii . p . 184 ) , 500 B. C. Varro de R. R. i . 1 , says : " Hos nobilitate Mago Cartha- giniensis præteriit Pœnica lingua , quod res ...
... look in vain for any Greek in the Punic language , lived , as Humboldt supposes ( Cosmos , vol . ii . p . 184 ) , 500 B. C. Varro de R. R. i . 1 , says : " Hos nobilitate Mago Cartha- giniensis præteriit Pœnica lingua , quod res ...
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... look to Greek . We there form adjectives by ouoc , which is the same as the Sanskrit tya or sya . For instance , from diuos , people , the Greeks formed dŋuócios , belonging to the people . Here oç , a , ov , mark the gender . Leave the ...
... look to Greek . We there form adjectives by ouoc , which is the same as the Sanskrit tya or sya . For instance , from diuos , people , the Greeks formed dŋuócios , belonging to the people . Here oç , a , ov , mark the gender . Leave the ...
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