Race and LanguageK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Company, 1894 - 424 pagini |
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adjectives adverbs agglutinative agglutinative languages already ancient Arabic Aryans Asia aspirate Assyrian attributive roots Basque become belong Berber case-endings century Chaldean character Chinese civilisation coast common compounds conjugation consonants dative declension dental derived dialects Dravidian elements English Esquimaux existence express finally French Gauls gender give Goth Gothic grammar Greek guages guttural Hebrew Hellenes High German ideas idioms Indo-European Indo-European languages inflected inflexion inscriptions Islands Kaffir kings labial language lastly Latin less letter Malay Mandchu meaning Michel Bréal modern monosyllabic nasal noun onomatopoeia origin participles Persian phonetic plural possessed prefixes prepositions primitive pronominal pronounced pronunciation race recognise Regnaud remains Romance languages Sanscrit semi-vowel Semitic sense sibilant signify singular Slav soft sound speech spoken substantive suffixes syllables Syria Tamil tense terminations Teutonic theme tion tive tongue trace tribes Turkish utterance verb verbal vocabulary vowel whence words Zend
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Pagina 421 - Pro deo amur, et pro Christian pobló et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di en avant, inquant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai cist meon fradre
Pagina 41 - simple interjections are but the relics, in combination with the demonstratives, prepares the outlines of the sentence, and already represents the verb and the names of states or actions. Imitation, direct or symbolical, and necessarily only approximative of the sounds of external nature, ie,
Pagina 40 - Animals possess two of the important elements of language—the spontaneous reflex cry of emotion or need ; the voluntary cry of warning, threat, or summons. From these two sorts of utterance, man, endowed already with a richer vocal apparatus and a more developed brain, evolved numerous varieties by means of stress, reduplication,
Pagina 41 - furnished the elements of the attributive roots, from which arise the names of objects, special verbs, and their derivatives. Analogy and metaphor complete the vocabulary, applying to the objects, discerned by touch, sight, smell, and taste, qualifying adjectives derived from onomatopoeia.
Pagina 421 - et ab Ludher nul plaid numquam prindrai qui, meon vol, cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit
Pagina 40 - The warning or summoning cry, the germ of the demonstrative roots, is the parent of the names of numbers, sex, and distance ; the emotional cry, of which
Pagina 36 - example, its bite or the wagging of its tail ; if it were voice, we should say 'bow-wow.' This is the simple explanation of the importance which is and must be attributed to the onomatopoetic principle in the early stages of language-making.
Pagina 187 - If there are coincidences, they are fortuitous, or they result from evolution, which leads all the human groups through the same stages and by the same steps.
Pagina 154 - in the storm, My friend in the eight seas. Alas ! alas ! gone is my friend,
Pagina 89 - have in common the inalterability of the root or full syllable, and the alteration in the sense of the subordinate or empty syllable ; to agglutination alone belongs the change in the form of the subordinate root.