SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE.

BY

A. H. SAYCE,

DEPUTY PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., I, PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

Ehill

Ille demum foret nobilissima grammaticæ species, si quis in linguis tam eruditis quam vulgaribus eximie doctus, de variis linguarum proprietatibus tractaret ; in quibus quæque excellat, in quibus deficiat ostendens."-BACON (“ De Aug. Scient.," vi. 1).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS. .

VOL. II.

PAGE

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Chapter VI. Roots

Genealogical Classification of Languages (with

list of grammatical authorities)

31

VII. The Inflectional Families of Speech (Aryan,

Semitic, Old Egyptian, Sub-Semitic and

Ethiopian, Hottentot, Alarodian).

65

VIII. The Agglutinative, Incorporating, Polysynthetic,

and Isolating Languages

188

IX. Comparative Mythology and the Science of

Religion.

230

X. The Origin of Language, and the iclasion of the :

Science of Language to Ethnology, Logic,

and Education

: 300

Selected List of Works for the Student .

Index

305

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