 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1863
...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
...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... 
