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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... speech within the narrow bars of Aryan or Semitic grammar . We have not very far to go in order to hear such phrases as " he is a - going , I am a - coming , " & c . , in- stead of the more usual " he is going , I am coming . " Now the ...
... speech within the narrow bars of Aryan or Semitic grammar . We have not very far to go in order to hear such phrases as " he is a - going , I am a - coming , " & c . , in- stead of the more usual " he is going , I am coming . " Now the ...
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... speech ? Let us take the Bask , which is certainly neither Aryan nor Semitic , and which has thrown out a greater abundance of verbal forms than almost any known language.1 Here the pres- ent is formed by what is called a participle ...
... speech ? Let us take the Bask , which is certainly neither Aryan nor Semitic , and which has thrown out a greater abundance of verbal forms than almost any known language.1 Here the pres- ent is formed by what is called a participle ...
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... speech , that what is possible in French is possible in Latin , that what Le futur erorico niz ( je tomberai ) offre le même verbe et la même forme passive avec la terminaison co . laquelle est propre à exprimer la futurition , par la ...
... speech , that what is possible in French is possible in Latin , that what Le futur erorico niz ( je tomberai ) offre le même verbe et la même forme passive avec la terminaison co . laquelle est propre à exprimer la futurition , par la ...
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... speech must be equally true in all . This is not so , and cannot be so . Language , though its growth is governed by intelligible principles through- out , was not so uniform in its progress as to repeat exactly the same phenomena at ...
... speech must be equally true in all . This is not so , and cannot be so . Language , though its growth is governed by intelligible principles through- out , was not so uniform in its progress as to repeat exactly the same phenomena at ...
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... 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 , we find but little agreement in what may be ...
... 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 , we find but little agreement in what may be ...
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Agni Alphabet ancient Angiras Anglo-Saxon Aryan languages aspirates Asvins breath bright called conception consonantal consonants cows Curtius dawn deity dental derived dialects distinct divine doubt Dyaus earth English etymology express father French German glottis gods Gothic Grammar Grammatik Greek Grimm Grimm's law guage guttural heaven hence Homer horse hymn idea Indra Italian Kafir Kuhn Kuhn's Zeitschrift labial Latin letters likewise Maruts meaning meant originally metaphor mind modern mother myth mythology nations nature never night noun Old High-German Old Norse philosophers phonetic poets Polynesian pronounced Rig-Veda Roman root Sanskrit Sarama Saranyû Savitar Saxon scholars Science of Language sense skrit Slavonic soft sonant sound speak speech spiritus asper spiritus lenis spoken supposed syllable tenuis Teutonic things thought tion tongue trace Tuisco twins Varuna Veda verb vibrations Vivasvat vowels words Yama Zeus δὲ καὶ τῶν