Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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Page 8
... less success , during the last fifty years . That map was necessarily incomplete . It com- prehended not much more than what in an atlas of the ancient world is called ' Orbis Veteribus Notus , ' where you distinguish names and ...
... less success , during the last fifty years . That map was necessarily incomplete . It com- prehended not much more than what in an atlas of the ancient world is called ' Orbis Veteribus Notus , ' where you distinguish names and ...
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... less startling than this which would make the Polynesian the primi- tive language of mankind . I received lately a Comparative Grammar of the South - African Lan- guages , printed at the Cape , written by a most learned and ingenious ...
... less startling than this which would make the Polynesian the primi- tive language of mankind . I received lately a Comparative Grammar of the South - African Lan- guages , printed at the Cape , written by a most learned and ingenious ...
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... less we admit the process of dialectic regeneration to a much greater extent than we should be justified in doing in the Aryan and Semitic families , our task of reconciliation would become hopeless . Will it be be- lieved that since ...
... less we admit the process of dialectic regeneration to a much greater extent than we should be justified in doing in the Aryan and Semitic families , our task of reconciliation would become hopeless . Will it be be- lieved that since ...
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... less than ten distinct languages are spoken . Some of them are confined to single villages , others to groups of three or four ; and though of course they have a certain family resemblance , they are yet so distinct as to be mutually ...
... less than ten distinct languages are spoken . Some of them are confined to single villages , others to groups of three or four ; and though of course they have a certain family resemblance , they are yet so distinct as to be mutually ...
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... less than forty or fifty of the most common words , which occur in conversation , had been entirely changed . It is not necessary that all the simple words which go to make up a compound name should be changed . The alteration of one is ...
... less than forty or fifty of the most common words , which occur in conversation , had been entirely changed . It is not necessary that all the simple words which go to make up a compound name should be changed . The alteration of one is ...
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