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... expressed by them , we need not enter . The balance between the two extreme views of language as a conventional 1 1 1 The view that language is conventional , ' in the sense that people meet or ever met together to deliberate on the ...
... expressed by them , we need not enter . The balance between the two extreme views of language as a conventional 1 1 1 The view that language is conventional , ' in the sense that people meet or ever met together to deliberate on the ...
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... expressed by them can be of little use for the purposes of a science which ( as Professor Max Müller points out ) collects facts and accounts for these facts as far as possible . It is at least probable that language owes its origin to ...
... expressed by them can be of little use for the purposes of a science which ( as Professor Max Müller points out ) collects facts and accounts for these facts as far as possible . It is at least probable that language owes its origin to ...
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... expressed by combination of primitive elements ; ( b ) genealogical , according to similarity of gram- matical forms . a . Morpho- logical . ( a ) The morphological ' classification distinguishes three ' stages ' of growth in language1 ...
... expressed by combination of primitive elements ; ( b ) genealogical , according to similarity of gram- matical forms . a . Morpho- logical . ( a ) The morphological ' classification distinguishes three ' stages ' of growth in language1 ...
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... expression of meaning . The Semitic and Indo - European families of speech fall under this head . of the three morphologi- This classification may be illustrated by constructing an Illustration imaginary history , passing through these ...
... expression of meaning . The Semitic and Indo - European families of speech fall under this head . of the three morphologi- This classification may be illustrated by constructing an Illustration imaginary history , passing through these ...
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... expressed , naturally led to difficulties in retaining the right discrimination , e . g . of case and tense , and to substitution of other expedients for expressing such distinctions . ( i . ) Case inflections gave way to prepositions ...
... expressed , naturally led to difficulties in retaining the right discrimination , e . g . of case and tense , and to substitution of other expedients for expressing such distinctions . ( i . ) Case inflections gave way to prepositions ...
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Page 21 - Persius. The Satires. With a Translation and Commentary. By John Conington, MA, late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Edited by H. Nettleship, MA Second Edition.
Page 223 - ... atque utei hoce in tabolam ahenam inceideretis ita senatus aiquom censuit uteique eam figier ioubeatis ubei facilumed gnoscier potisit atque utei ea Bacanalia sei qua sunt exstrad quam sei quid ibei sacri est ita utei suprad scriptum est in diebus X quibus vobeis tabelai datai erunt faciatis utei dismota sient.
Page 224 - С. de Bacch., but less antique in spelling, (the former being of a more formal legal nature). The earliest example of doubled letters. laimilius . 1 . f . inpeirator . decreiuit | utei . quei . hasten sium . seruei | in . turri . lascutana . habitarent | leiberei . es sent . agrum . oppidumqu [ quod . ea . tempestate . posedisent | item . possidere . habereque | iousit . dum . poplus . senatus que | romanus . uellet . act incastreis | ad . xii . k . febr IV. From an inscription at Polla in Lucania,...
Page 15 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.