Race and LanguageK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Company, 1894 - 424 pagini |
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Pagina 14
... root in that parent tongue , which , ancient as it seems , was yet perhaps unborn at the time of the pyramids of Giseh , sixty centuries ago . It may be noted in passing , that this uncertainty of utterance does not hold good of the ...
... root in that parent tongue , which , ancient as it seems , was yet perhaps unborn at the time of the pyramids of Giseh , sixty centuries ago . It may be noted in passing , that this uncertainty of utterance does not hold good of the ...
Pagina 16
... root or central syllable remains as a rule unchanged ; the accessory syllables , whether prefixed or suffixed , are ... root itself , and often reduce suffixes and prefixes to unrecognisable fragments . The Semitic group , however ...
... root or central syllable remains as a rule unchanged ; the accessory syllables , whether prefixed or suffixed , are ... root itself , and often reduce suffixes and prefixes to unrecognisable fragments . The Semitic group , however ...
Pagina 17
... root ; it gives to thought incompar- able freedom and precision , and furnishes it with an abundant vocabulary of exact terms and of derivatives independent of the parent root and of other cognate words . At length , and as the result ...
... root ; it gives to thought incompar- able freedom and precision , and furnishes it with an abundant vocabulary of exact terms and of derivatives independent of the parent root and of other cognate words . At length , and as the result ...
Pagina 19
... root , since atrophied , which seems to have been used to define the sense . Take away this adventitious aid , and the number is reduced to a few dozen , whose meaning is as doubtful as the form is simple and crude . It remains to be ...
... root , since atrophied , which seems to have been used to define the sense . Take away this adventitious aid , and the number is reduced to a few dozen , whose meaning is as doubtful as the form is simple and crude . It remains to be ...
Pagina 27
... root syllable characterises certain moods and tenses . the most rudimentary expedients of language in its in- fancy reappear in the elaborate devices of an advanced state of civilisation . Thus We have said enough to show that the ...
... root syllable characterises certain moods and tenses . the most rudimentary expedients of language in its in- fancy reappear in the elaborate devices of an advanced state of civilisation . Thus We have said enough to show that the ...
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