Introduction to the Science of Language, Volume 1K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1900 |
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A. J. Ellis accent adjective agglutinative alphabet analogy Arabic articulate Aryan Aryan family Basque become Bopp breath Chinese clicks common comparative philology compound consonants denote dental derived dialects diphthong edition English etymology existence express 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 laws letters linguistic 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 primitive produced pronounced pronunciation race reduplication relations of grammar Rig-Veda roots Sanskrit science of language scientific sematology Semitic Semitic languages sense sentence side signification sonant sounds speak spiritus lenis suffixes syllable syntax thought tion tone tongue trace utterance verb vibrations vocal chords vocal organs voice vowel words
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Pagina 41 - 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 152 - through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Pagina 201 - 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 41 - 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 201 - If we confine ourselves to the Asiatic continent, with its important peninsula of Europe, we find that in the vast desert of drifting human speech, three, and only three oases have been formed, in which, before the beginning of all history, language became permanent and traditional; assumed, in
Pagina 201 - new character—a character totally different from the original character of the floating and constantly varying speech of human beings." And these oases, these families of speech, it is important to remember, are themselves made up of dialects, only dialects with a common grammar and a common stock of roots.
Pagina 358 - able to conceive a hand or father, 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 consanguinity to
Pagina 94 - the rate of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely puzzle a Dammara to take two sheep and give him four sticks.
Pagina 364 - The Grebo of West Africa can distinguish between " I " and " thou," " we " and " you," solely by the intonation of the voice, md di being equally " I eat" and " thou eatest," a di, " you " and " we eat,
Pagina xxxvii - 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.