Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ... 1861 [and 1863], Volume 1C. Scribner, 1862 - Comparative linguistics |
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... grammatical forms , he is so only after his individuality has been merged in the common action of the family , tribe ... form together with him one class , one body , or one organic whole . But , though it is easy to show , as we have ...
... grammatical forms , he is so only after his individuality has been merged in the common action of the family , tribe ... form together with him one class , one body , or one organic whole . But , though it is easy to show , as we have ...
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... grammatical in words . For let us now take another instance , which will make it clearer , how phonetic corruption leads to the first appearance of so - called grammatical forms . We are not in the habit of looking on twenty as the plu ...
... grammatical in words . For let us now take another instance , which will make it clearer , how phonetic corruption leads to the first appearance of so - called grammatical forms . We are not in the habit of looking on twenty as the plu ...
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... forms peculiar to each tribe , that even within the limits of twelve or twenty German miles , communication among ... grammatical life ; and that while the literary language of the Mongolians has no terminations for the persons of the ...
... forms peculiar to each tribe , that even within the limits of twelve or twenty German miles , communication among ... grammatical life ; and that while the literary language of the Mongolians has no terminations for the persons of the ...
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... grammatical justice , this generous feeling of what ought to be , which in the course of centuries has eliminated many so - called irregular forms . Thus the auxiliary verb in Latin was very irregular . If sumus is we are , and sunt ...
... grammatical justice , this generous feeling of what ought to be , which in the course of centuries has eliminated many so - called irregular forms . Thus the auxiliary verb in Latin was very irregular . If sumus is we are , and sunt ...
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... forms , and published long and learned treatises on all these subjects ... grammar of the Greek language . Now the first real Greek grammar was that of Dionysius ... grammatical science . Nearly all the frame- work of grammar , as we saw ...
... forms , and published long and learned treatises on all these subjects ... grammar of the Greek language . Now the first real Greek grammar was that of Dionysius ... grammatical science . Nearly all the frame- work of grammar , as we saw ...
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