Introduction to the Science of Language, Volume 1Kegan Paul, 1880 |
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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 English etymology existence express fact family of speech Finnish flection French gender genitive German glottis grammarians Greek Grimm's law guage guttural Hebrew ideas idioms inflectional instance Kafir labial larynx Latin letters linguistic lips Max Müller meaning modern mouth nasal nature noun object organs of speech origin Ostiak palate phænomena philologist phonetic phonetic decay phonology pitch plural polysynthetic languages position primitive produced pronounced pronunciation race reduplication relations of grammar Rig-Veda roots Sanskrit savage science of language scientific sematology Semitic sense sentence side signification soft palate sonant sounds speak spiritus lenis suffixes syllable thought tion tone tongue trace utterance verb vibrations vocal chords vocal organs voice vowel words
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Pagina 25 - ... Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.
Pagina 195 - 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 fact a new character, a character totally different from the original character of the floating and constantly varying speech of human beings.
Pagina 144 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Pagina 25 - ... no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists; there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family, if this were the place for discussing any question concerning the antiquities of Persia.
Pagina 82 - Dinah, my spaniel, equally embarrassed on the other. She was overlooking half a dozen of her new-born puppies, which had been removed two or three times from her, and her anxiety was excessive, as she tried to find out if they were all present, or if any were still missing. She kept puzzling and running her eyes over them, backwards and forwards, but could not satisfy herself. She evidently had a vague notion of counting, but the figure was too large for her brain. Taking the two as they stood, dog...
Pagina 82 - Once while I watched a Dammara floundering hopelessly in a calculation on one side of me, I observed Dinah, my spaniel, equally embarrassed on the other. She was overlooking half a dozen of her new-born puppies, which had been removed two or three times from her, and her anxiety was excessive, as she tried to find out if they were all present, or if any were still missing. She kept puzzling and running her eyes over them, backwards and forwards, but could not satisfy herself.
Pagina 197 - These are varieties of one word, originally used to mark the motion of fire, water, wind, darts. II. To strike with a quick, vigorous, impelling force, BAG or BWAG, of which FAG and PAG are softer varieties.
Pagina 195 - The reason why scholars have discovered no more than these two or three great families of speech is very simple. There were no more, and we cannot make more. Families of languages are very peculiar formations ; they are, and they must be, the exception, not the rule, in the growth of language.
Pagina 190 - Weimar travelled among them a few years after the peace, he found the peasants speaking as they had done in Germany in the preceding century,* and retaining a dialect which at home had already become obsolete. Even after the renewal of the German emigration from Europe, when I travelled in 1841 among the same people in the retired valleys of the Alleghanies, I found the newspapers full of terms half English and half German, and many an Anglo-Saxon word which had assumed a Teutonic dress, as ' fencen,'...
Pagina 123 - Marvel noi that 1 said unto thee, ye must be born again ; the wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh. and whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the Spirit.