Introduction to the Study of Language: A Critical Survey of the History and Methods of Comparative Philology of the Indo-European LanguagesFB & Limited, 1882 - 142 Seiten Excerpt from Introduction to the Study of Language: A Critical Survey of the History and Methods of Comparative Philology of the Indo-European Languages The character of the present work is mainly determined by the circumstance that it is intended by the author to facili tate the study of the Grammars which breitkopf hartel are publishing, as well as the comprehension of comparative philology in its newest form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... dialects , 121–122 ; 2 ) how great a uniformity can be expected within the bounds of the dialect , 123-129 . Fluctuations must be assumed for a state of transition , 123–124 ; but no permanent lack of uniformity in the treatment of ...
... dialect with T. SCHEIDIUS commits another fault , namely , that in speaking of the pronouns he stops at the nominative , whilst the crude form of nouns may be better extracted from the oblique cases . In this way it is easy to discover ...
... dialects , as well as relations , hitherto overlooked , between their differences . It seemed of great importance to establish and illustrate this progressive , continuous connection down to the smallest detail ; I have thought out the ...
... dialects " their proper position beside the written language , not simply in the field of German , but also in that of other languages , as we can see from the words of AHRENS , who in the dedication of his work on the Greek dialects ...
... dialects of the people . The guiding principles for lin- guistic research should accordingly be deduced , not from the obsolete written languages of antiquity , but chiefly from the living popular dialects of the present day . These are ...