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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... grammar is exactly the same as the grammar which he uses in his Tataric utterance . There is , perhaps , no language so full of words evi- dently derived from the most distant sources as English . Every country of the globe seems to ...
... grammar is exactly the same as the grammar which he uses in his Tataric utterance . There is , perhaps , no language so full of words evi- dently derived from the most distant sources as English . Every country of the globe seems to ...
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... grammar . Hervas was told by mission- aries that in the middle of the eighteenth century the Araucans used hardly a single word which was not Span- ish , though they preserved both the grammar and the syntax of their own native speech.1 ...
... grammar . Hervas was told by mission- aries that in the middle of the eighteenth century the Araucans used hardly a single word which was not Span- ish , though they preserved both the grammar and the syntax of their own native speech.1 ...
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... grammar , or the formal part of human speech , is far more abundantly developed than in English ; and it is , therefore , a much safer guide for discovering a family likeness in scattered members of the same family . There are languages ...
... grammar , or the formal part of human speech , is far more abundantly developed than in English ; and it is , therefore , a much safer guide for discovering a family likeness in scattered members of the same family . There are languages ...
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... grammar , existed in the schools of philosophy long before they were handed over , ready made , to the grammarian . The distinction of noun and verb , or more correctly , of subject and predicate , was the work of philosophers . Even ...
... grammar , existed in the schools of philosophy long before they were handed over , ready made , to the grammarian . The distinction of noun and verb , or more correctly , of subject and predicate , was the work of philosophers . Even ...
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... grammar ; and thus opened the first roads into the impervious wilderness of spoken speech . In doing this , the grammarian had to alter the strict ac- ceptation of many of the terms which he borrowed from the philosopher , and he had to ...
... grammar ; and thus opened the first roads into the impervious wilderness of spoken speech . In doing this , the grammarian had to alter the strict ac- ceptation of many of the terms which he borrowed from the philosopher , and he had to ...
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