The Discovery of Language: Linguistic Science in the Nineteenth Century Translated by John Webster Spargo

Pedersen, Holger:

Verlag: Indiana University Press, Bloomington & London, 1967

Beschreibung

96 Seiten Gebundenes Exemplar in gutem Zustand mit einigen Gebrauchsspuren. Ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar. Hardcover copy in good condition with some signs of wear. Former Library copy. CONTENTS - INTRODUCTION - Pagan Antiquity - Christianity. The Middle Ages - The Sixteenth and SeveI^teenth Centuries - The Eighteenth Century - The Nineteenth Century - I. THE ANCIENT LITERARY LANGUAGES OF INDIA AND IRAN BECOME KNOWN - Indian - Iranian - II. THE GREAT LINGUISTIC GROUPS OF MODERN EUROPE: GERMANIC, SLAVONIC, CELTIC - Germanic - Slavonic - Celtic - III. LITHUANIAN, ALBANIAN, ARMENIAN - Lithuanian - Albanian - Armenian - IV. THE CONTINUED STUDY OF THE CLASSICAL LANGUAGES - Classical Philology - Greek - Latin - V. THE STUDY OF NON-INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILIES OF LANGUAGES - The Foreign Families Surrounding Europe - The Non-Indo-European Families Surrounding India - The More Distant Non-Indo-European Language Families - VI. INSCRIPTIONS AND ARCH^OLOGICAL DISCOVERIES. THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF WRITING - The Languages of the Cuneiform Inscriptions - The Lands of the Hieroglyphs - The Semitic Alphabet - The More Distant Offshoots of the Semitic Alphabet - The Countries of the Greek Alphabet - Greek Discoveries - The Greek Alphabet Among Foreign Peoples - Offshoots of the Latin Alphabet - VII. THE METHODS OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS - A Survey of Their Development - The Older Period of Comparative Linguistics (Rask, Bopp, Grimm, Pott, Curtius, Schleicher, Fick) - The New Period of Comparative Linguistics - Discoveries in the History of Sounds - "Ablaut" - The Theoretical Inquiry - Phonetics - Comprehensive Works and Periodicals - VIII. LINGUISTIC AFFINITIES OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS, HOME, AND CIVILIZATION Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1042.

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• Titel: The Discovery of Language: Linguistic Science in the Nineteenth Century Translated by John Webster Spargo
• Verlag: Indiana University Press, Bloomington & London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1967
• Sprache: Englisch
• Einband: , Hardcover/Pappeinband
• Auflage: 4th printing.
• Zustand: Gut
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