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INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE
OF LANGUAGE.
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE PRL\XIPLES OY COMPARATIVE
PHILOLOCiV. Fourth Edition, revised laid enlarged.
Crown 8vo. io3. 6d,
WORKS BY PROF. W. D. WHITNEY.
THE LIFE AND GROWTPI OF LANGUAGE.
Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s. (I. S. S.
LANGUAGE AND THE STUDY OF LAN-
GUAGE. Fourth Edition. Crown Svo. los. 6d.
LANGUAGE AND ITS STUDY. With especial
reference to the Indo-European Family of Lan<,"jagcs.
Edited by K. Morris. SecondEchtion. Crown Svo. 5s.
SANSKRIT GRAMMAR. Including both the
Classical Language and tiie older Dialects of Veda and
Brahmana. Second Edition. Demy Svo. 12s.
ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
Second Edition. Crown Svo. 3s. 6d.
RACE AND LANGUAGE. By Andre Lefevre.
Crown Svo. 5s. (I. S.S.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, TrCbner & Co. U]}
INTRODUCTION TO THE
SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE
A. H.
PROFESSOK QV ASSYKIULOGV, OXFURU; llo.\. LL.U, DUBLIN'.
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LONDON
KEGAN
PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER
& CO. LTO
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1900
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'• Ilia demnm forct nobilissima grammatica: species, si quis in
linguis tani eruditis quam \'uli;aribus eximic doctus, de vaviis
linguaruin proprietalibus tracterat in quibus qiuuque exccllat, in
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quibus deticiat ostendens." BacON ('' De Any. Scient.," vi. i).
Therighls oftranslation andofriproaiiction are reserved.
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TABLE OF CONTEXTS.
VOL.
II.
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Chapter VI. Roots
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Genealoi^ncal Classification of Lan,c,^ua.i;es fwith
list ofgrammatical authorities; . . 3'
VII. The Inflectional Families of .Speech .'.Aryan,
SI quis in Semitic, Old I':.t,^yptiiin, .Sub-.Semitic mi
de variis Ethiopian, Hottentot, Aiarodian) . 65
xccllat, in VIII. TheAgglutinative,Incorporating,Polysynthetic,
vi. i). and Isolating Languages 88
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„ IX. Comparative Mythology and the Science of
Religion . . . 230
„ X. The Origin of Language, and the relation of the
Science of Langua.ge .to E.thno.logy.. Lo.gic,
and Education 500
Selected List ofWorks for the Student
. 354
Index
365