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 London 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 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 46 - Caldwell. — A COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR OF THE DRAvIDIAN, OR SOUTHINDIAN FAMILY OF LANGUAGES.
Pagina 230 - For no thought of man made Gods to love or honour Ere the song within the silent soul began, Nor might earth in dream or deed take heaven upon her Till the word was clothed with speech by lips of man.
Pagina 323 - Holywell, 1796, p. 28. Gypsies. — The history and migration of the gipsies, says Professor Sayce, have been traced step by step by means of an examination of their lexicon. The grammar and dictionary of the Romany prove that they started from their kindred, the Jats, on the north-western coast of India, near the mouths of the Indus, not earlier than the tenth century of the Christian era ; that they slowly made their way through Persia, Armenia and Greece, until, after a sojourn in Hungary, they...
Pagina 290 - ... 5 The Redskin, says Carver,6 ' 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 atten1 tion to deprecating the wrath of the evil than securing ' the favour of the good beings.
Pagina 6 - ... a tree;" 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" they said
Pagina 332 - ... 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 89 - East and 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...
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 289 - And preeminently among animals, the serpent, the most subtle of all the beasts of the field, attracted the fear and the adoration of man.
Pagina 66 - The spirit of vanity has invaded the science of language itself. We have come to think that not only is the race to which we belong superior to all others, but that the languages we speak are equally superior', Introduction to the science of language (London, 1880), II, 66.