The Verb in the Second Book in Gipuskoan Bask (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Dodgson, E. S.

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ISBN 10: 1330599349 ISBN 13: 9781330599341

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Verb in the Second Book in Gipuskoan Bask

It is probable that none of the above forms is obsolete, and that all of them, except those beginning in die, are included in, or are to be inferred from, one or other of the Dictionaries, Grammars, or Paradigms' which have been published. These books, however, do not tell the student where he may see any given form at work. They may enable him to take the words on trust, and to commit them to memory. But, just as we understand a person better when we have visited him or her in his or her2 workroom and proper sphere of influence; so the Bask verb can only be really assimilated when located (might one say hered and nowed and seen reigning from stop to step on a printed page, like a vow humana in the organ.

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Excerpt from The Verb in the Second Book in Gipuskoan Bask

Warned by Saint Paul that languages will pass away, and finding a special though melancholy interest in such which have ceased to be spoken, even as Cornish did in the last century, the Philologist ought to aim at preserving all that may still be found out about any which are in danger. Assyrian and Etruscan are interesting in much the same way as a collection of implements from the age of stone. But a language like Bask is important and instructive in the same way that the machinery of Signor Marconi, and his imitators and rivals, is. It is destined to convey the thoughts of men who will live in the twentieth century. It has some, however little, hope in it. The oldest known book in any of the dialects of a language that is threatened with death, such as Ainu, Finnish, Manx, Maori, Roumansch, or Wendish, deserves especial attention. For such a work shows us how the dialect was written in the most youthful period of its life of which we possess any record. It must be respected as an incunabulum. Bask, or Heushara, is in a state of decadence. I recognize it with sorrow. The Basks, or Heuskara-holders as they are called in their own speech, Heuskal-dunak, are responsible for this themselves, as two of their best writers in the eighteenth century, Cardaberaz and Larregi, boldly told them. The clergy are the chief culprits in the matter. They are now Heuskara-losers! If Heuskara he spoken and written a hundred years hence, I fear it will be so spoiled by a "corrupt following" of erdarisms, that it had better not have lived to be so old, and one might well chant to its memory the lilting lines of "the German Mezzofanti," Dr. G. I. J. Sauerwein, of the University of Goettingen, on The Death of a Language.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330599349
• ISBN 13: 9781330599341
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 50
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