Introduction to the Science of Language, Volumul 2C. K. Paul & Company, 1880 |
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Introduction to the Science of Language: In 2 Volumes, Volumul 2 Archibald Henry Sayce Vizualizare completă - 1880 |
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2nd edit Accadian affixed agglutinative alphabet ancient aorist Aryan Aryan family Aryan languages Assyrian Basque become belong century Chaldea Chinese common comparative philology compound consonants dative denote derived dialects English Euhemerus existence express fables fact family of speech Finnic flection folklore French genitive German Grammar Grammatica Grammatik Greek griechischen guage Homeric idioms Indian inflectional inscriptions instance Kafir Keltic Langue lateinischen Latin legend Leipzig Lengua linguistic literary literature Lithuanian locative Magyár Max Müller meaning modern Mordvin mythology myths noun object once origin Oscan Ostiak personal pronouns phænomena philologist phonetic decay plural polysynthetic polysynthetic languages possessed prefixed primæval primitive Prof pronominal pronunciation race reduplicated religion Rig-Veda roots Sanskrit Semitic Semitic languages sentence signify Slavonic sounds spelling spoken Sprache Sprachen stem suffix syllable symbols tenses tion tive tongues trace translation tribes triliteral Ueber Ural-Altaic verb vocabulary vowel Welsh words Zend
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Pagina 334 - ... in books and dictionaries and governed by the strict rules of impersonal grammarians. It is the living expression of the mind and spirit of a people, ever changing and shifting, whose sole standard of correctness is custom and the common usage of the community. . . . The first lesson to be learned is that there is no intrinsic right or wrong in the use of language, no fixed rules such as are the delight of the teacher of Latin prose. What is right now will be wrong hereafter; what language rejected...
Pagina 292 - lives in continual ' apprehension of the unkind attacks of spirits, and to ' avert them has recourse to charms, to the fantastic ' ceremonies of his priest, or the powerful influence of ' his manitous. Fear has of course a greater share in ' his devotions than gratitude, and he pays more atten' tion to deprecating the wrath of the evil than securing ' the favour of the good beings.
Pagina 314 - When five and a half months old, he uttered an articulate sound "da," but without any meaning attached to it. When a little over a year old, he used gestures to explain his wishes; to give a simple instance, he picked up a bit of paper, and, giving it to me, pointed to the fire, as he had often seen and liked to see paper burnt. At exactly the age of a year, he made the great step of inventing a word for food, namely, mum, but what led him to it I did not discover. And now, instead...
Pagina 230 - I wish that you would tell me whether you believe this tale. Soc. The wise are doubtful, and if, like them, I also doubted, there would be nothing very strange in that. I might have a rational explanation that Orithyia was playing with Pharmacia, when a northern gust carried her over the neighboring rocks : and this being the manner of her death, she was said to have been carried away by Boreas. There is a discrepancy, however, about the locality, as according to another version of the story she...
Pagina 23 - But every word is supposed by the philologer to carry its requisite condition of mind with it. The Symbolic words are those which by themselves present no meaning to any mind, and which depend for their intelligibility on a relation to some presentive word or words.
Pagina 6 - neither could they express abstract qualities, such as hard, soft, warm, cold, long, short, round, &c.; for "hard" they would say "like a stone;" for "tall" they would say " long legs," &c. ; for " round
Pagina 332 - if I was you "... seem to be gradually spreading even among the educated. Prepositions. — The combination of a preposition and its noun (or pronoun) is identical in meaning with an oblique case of a noun, that is to say, it is a compound attribute. The preposition itself is modified attributively by the noun, and the two together constitute an attribute of some other word. Thus in
Pagina 89 - West Scandinavian. The former would be represented by the old language of Norway and Iceland, the latter by Swedish and Danish. This division of the Scandinavian race had taken place before the Northmen settled in Sweden and Norway. The western division migrated westward from Russia, and crossed over from the continent to the Aland Islands, and from thence to the southern coast of the peninsula. The eastern division travelled along the Bothnian Gulf, passing the country occupied by the Finns and...
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