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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... roots , 73-85 ; 2 ) the noun , 85-92 ; 3 ) the verb , 92-99 . Can we distinguish different periods in the primitive speech ? 100. AscoLr's hypothesis , 100-101 . Concluding observations , 101–102 . CHAPTER VI : PHONETIC LAWS , pages 102 ...
... roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar , than could have been produced by accident ; so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source , which , perhaps , no ...
... roots , which it has in common with them , but extends to the innermost structure and gram- mar . The agreement is therefore not an accidental one , such as could be explained through intermixture , but an essential one , which points ...
... root , and sec- ondly , those which for this purpose affix actual words hav- ing in themselves the significance of plurality , past time , future obligation , or other comparative notions of the sort . The first class embraces the ...
... root . On the other hand , in languages which instead of inflection have only affixes , the same cannot be said of the roots ; they are no fruitful seed , only a heap of atoms , as it were , which every chance wind can easily scatter or ...