 ... sees that we have sometimes to deal with the reverse process of inseparable parts of words gradually gaining independence, will have to look out for a better or less ambiguous word than synthesis for the conditions of primitive speech. What in the...  Harvard Studies in Classical Philology - Page 71by Harvard University - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Otto Jespersen - English language - 1894 - 396 pages
...than syntlusis for the condition of primitive speech. What in the later stages of language is analysed or dissolved, in the earlier stages was unanalysable...renderings of our impression of the first state of things. In Latin liomini nobody is able to see where the designation of " man " ceases, or which element .signifies... | |
 | Foeke Buitenrust Hettema, J. H. van den Bosch, Roeland Anthonie Kollewijn - Dutch philology - 1895 - 426 pages
...the condition of primitive speech. What in the later stages of langnage is analysed or dissolvcd , in the earlier stages was unanalysable or indissoluble;...„complicated" would therefore be better renderings of onr impression of the first state of things." werkwoorden hier wel veranderingen naar aanleiding van... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - Children - 1922 - 476 pages
...than synthesis to describe the character of primitive speech. What in the later stages of languages is analyzed or dissolved, in the earlier stages was...complicated ' would therefore be better renderings of our impreaaice of the first state of things. XXL— §6. Units. But are the old forms really less dissoluble... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - Language and languages - 1922 - 462 pages
.../ in the later stages of languages is analyzed or dissolved, in the earlier stages was unanalyzable or indissoluble ; ' entangled ' or ' complicated '...renderings of our impression of the first state of things. XXI.— §6. Units. But are the old forms really less dissoluble than their modern equivalents ? This... | |
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