Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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... human life and human thought , supply materials capable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify them , we can reduce them to their constituent elements , and deduce from them some of the laws that determine their ...
... human life and human thought , supply materials capable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify them , we can reduce them to their constituent elements , and deduce from them some of the laws that determine their ...
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... human life and human thought , supply materials capable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify them , we can reduce them to their constituent elements , and deduce from them some of the laws that determine their ...
... human life and human thought , supply materials capable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify them , we can reduce them to their constituent elements , and deduce from them some of the laws that determine their ...
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... human faculty of speech which , even in its most primitive efforts , never seems to miss the high end at which it aims . The dialects of ancient Greece , ransacked as they have been by classical scholars , such as Maittaire , Giese ...
... human faculty of speech which , even in its most primitive efforts , never seems to miss the high end at which it aims . The dialects of ancient Greece , ransacked as they have been by classical scholars , such as Maittaire , Giese ...
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... human speech . It is perhaps not too much to say , ' he writes ( preface , page viii . ) , ' that similar results may at present be expected from a deeper study of such primitive forms of language as the Kafir and the Hottentot exhibit ...
... human speech . It is perhaps not too much to say , ' he writes ( preface , page viii . ) , ' that similar results may at present be expected from a deeper study of such primitive forms of language as the Kafir and the Hottentot exhibit ...
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... human speech , to the agglutinative and radical , the same tests which have proved successful in the in- flectional , would be like ignoring the difference be- tween aqueous , igneous , and metamorphic rocks . There are scholars who ...
... human speech , to the agglutinative and radical , the same tests which have proved successful in the in- flectional , would be like ignoring the difference be- tween aqueous , igneous , and metamorphic rocks . There are scholars who ...
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