Introduction to the Science of Language, Volumul 1C. K. Paul & Company, 1890 |
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A. J. Ellis accent adjective agglutinative alphabet analogy Arabic articulate Aryan Aryan family become Bopp breath chamber of resonance Chinese clicks common comparative philology compound consonants denote dental derived dialects diphthong English etymology existence express exspiration fact family of speech flection French gender genitive German glottis grammarians Greek Grimm's law guage guttural Hebrew ideas idioms imitation inflectional instance Kafir labial larynx Latin letters lips Max Müller meaning modern mouth nasal nature noun organs of speech origin palate parent-speech phænomena philologist phonetic phonetic decay phonology pitch plural polysynthetic languages position prefixed primitive produced pronounced pronunciation race reduplication relations of grammar roots Sanskrit science of language scientific sematology Semitic Semitic languages sense sentence side signification soft palate sonant sounds speak speakers spiritus lenis suffixes syllable thought tion tone tongue trace utterance verb vibrations vocal chords vocal organs voice vowel words
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Pagina 47 - no philologer could examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason,
Pagina 166 - through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Pagina 217 - Families of languages are very peculiar formations ; they are, and they must be, the exception, not the rule, in the growth of language. There was always the possibility, but there never was, as far as I can judge, any necessity for human speech leaving its primitive stage of wild growth and
Pagina 47 - though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and Celtic had the same origin with the Sanskrit. The old Persian may be added to the same family.
Pagina 49 - to begin with studying the modern languages which are within our reach, in order to compare them with one another, to discover their differences and affinities, and then to proceed to those which have preceded them in former ages, in order to show their filiation and their origin, and then to ascend, step by step, to the most ancient tongues.
Pagina 206 - Humboldt tells us * that in South America, together with a great analogy of physical constitution, "a surprising variety of languages is observed among nations of the same origin, and which European travellers scarcely distinguish by their features.
Pagina 104 - the .rate of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely puzzle a Dammara to take two sheep and give him four sticks.
Pagina 388 - The Grebo of West Africa can distinguish between " I " and " thou," " we " and " you," solely by the intonation of the voice, ma di being equally " I eat " and " thou eatest," a di, " you " and " we eat,
Pagina 382 - except so far as they were related to himself, or- something else, and so essentially concrete rather than abstract were his notions, that he combined the pronoun with the substantive whenever he had a part of the human body or a degree of
Pagina xxix - we ought to study savage tribes, such as we find them still at the present day, is perfectly just. It is the lesson which geology has taught us, applied to the stratification of the human race.