 | William Hugh Ferrar - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1869 - 362 pages
...course unknown to the * " It is not accidental (writes CR Lepsius, Standard Alphabet, 2nd Ed. p. 89), but very significant, that as far as I know, without any essential exception, only the most highly civilized races — the leading nations in the history of mankind — distinguish throughout the genders,... | |
 | Hendrik Clemens Muller - Comparative literature - 1904 - 224 pages
...Gender-languages , and No-gender-languages. It is not accidental but very significant (he remarks) that only the most highly civilised races, the leading...which scientifically by linguistic reasons may be proven as descending from one original Asiatic stock. The development of peculiar forms for the grammatical... | |
 | Albert J. Schütz - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 540 pages
...literature. 14 Lepsius wrote (1855 [1863]:89): 1t is not accidental but very significant, that, as far as 1 know without any essential exception, only the most...the Gender-languages are the same as those, which scientifieally by linguistic reasons may be proved as descending from one original Asiatic stock. The... | |
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It is not accidental but very significant, that, as far as I know without any essential exception, only the most highly civilised races — the leading nations in the history of mankind — distinguish throughout the genders, and that the Gender-languages... 