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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... once how abundant the growth of dialects ! The Friesian , which is spoken on a small area on the Frisian . north - western coast of Germany , between the Scheldt and Jutland , and on the islands near the shore , which has been spoken ...
... once how abundant the growth of dialects ! The Friesian , which is spoken on a small area on the Frisian . north - western coast of Germany , between the Scheldt and Jutland , and on the islands near the shore , which has been spoken ...
Page 68
... once living and running speech , but they are no longer carried on by the main current . At times it may seem as if the whole stream of language was absorbed by these lakes , and we can hardly trace the small rivulets which run on in ...
... once living and running speech , but they are no longer carried on by the main current . At times it may seem as if the whole stream of language was absorbed by these lakes , and we can hardly trace the small rivulets which run on in ...
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... once its natural growth . There will still be the progress of phonetic corruption , but no longer the restoring influence of dialectic regeneration . The language which the Norwegian refugees brought to Iceland has remained almost the ...
... once its natural growth . There will still be the progress of phonetic corruption , but no longer the restoring influence of dialectic regeneration . The language which the Norwegian refugees brought to Iceland has remained almost the ...
Page 73
... once that catena must become chaine ; fata , a later fem- inine representation of the old neuter fatum , fée ; pra- tum a meadow , pré . From pratum we derive prataria , which in French becomes prairie ; from fatum , fataria , the ...
... once that catena must become chaine ; fata , a later fem- inine representation of the old neuter fatum , fée ; pra- tum a meadow , pré . From pratum we derive prataria , which in French becomes prairie ; from fatum , fataria , the ...
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... once into theories about the mys- terious nature of speech , and cares as little for facts as the man who wrote an account of the camel with- out ever having seen the animal or the desert . The Brahmans , in the hymns of the Veda ...
... once into theories about the mys- terious nature of speech , and cares as little for facts as the man who wrote an account of the camel with- out ever having seen the animal or the desert . The Brahmans , in the hymns of the Veda ...
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