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... original making of human language and the imposition of names on things is not arbitrary and conventional , as is customarily imagined ; but a genuine system of necessity determined by two causes . One is the construction of the vocal ...
... original making of human language and the imposition of names on things is not arbitrary and conventional , as is customarily imagined ; but a genuine system of necessity determined by two causes . One is the construction of the vocal ...
Page 58
Roy Harris. to explain only the original names given to things , and claim that corruption of the original pronunciation over the course of time accounts for the apparent counterexamples in current usage . How- ever , any compromise of ...
Roy Harris. to explain only the original names given to things , and claim that corruption of the original pronunciation over the course of time accounts for the apparent counterexamples in current usage . How- ever , any compromise of ...
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... original question then arises at one remove . For it remains unexplained why there should be any temptation to effect that extrapolation . Or we might infer that the source of the error lies in the conflation of how we learn what a word ...
... original question then arises at one remove . For it remains unexplained why there should be any temptation to effect that extrapolation . Or we might infer that the source of the error lies in the conflation of how we learn what a word ...
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