 | 1915 - 288 pages
...43,566 words, 29,853 came from classical, 13,230 from Teutonic, and the rest from miscellaneous sources. On the evidence of its dictionary, therefore, and...Spanish, as one of the Romance or Neo-Latin dialects. MAX MULLER, The Science of Language. BATTLE OF THRASYMENUS The consul rejoiced as the heads of his... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1863 - 620 pages
...defied all attempts at classification, the English grammar was seen to be unquestionably Teutonic. " Hervas was told by missionaries, that in the middle...the eighteenth century the Araucans used hardly a word which was not Spanish, though they preserved both the grammar and the syntax of their own native... | |
 | American Philological Association - 1870 - 660 pages
...vocabulary, since mixture of this kind is well-nigh or quite universal; he holds, rather, that langnages, "though mixed in their dictionary, can never be mixed in their grammar ; " and by " grammar," as thus used, he means only the inflectional system, of declension and conjugation.... | |
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English amounts to only 13,330, against 29,354 words which can either mediately or immediately be traced to a Latin source.* On the evidence of its dictionary, therefore, and treating English as a mixed language, it would have to be classified together... 
