 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Comparative linguistics - 1880 - 436 pages
...can throw a group of languages and dialects together, and assert their connection one with another. The genealogical classification of languages, that...them together, and referring them to the same stock. Accidental resemblances of sound and sense between words are to be found all the world over, and the... | |
 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Comparative linguistics - 1880 - 478 pages
...can throw a group of languages and dialects together, and assert their connection one with another. The genealogical classification of languages, that...evidence of grammar and roots. Unless the grammar 32 THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE. agrees, no amount of similarity between the roots of two languages could... | |
 | American Philological Association - Philology - 1881 - 366 pages
...language that no one who writes on the subject can do without them. For example : he speaks (ii. 31) of " the genealogical classification of languages, that...mounting up, as it were, to a single parent-speech." He approves and accepts (ii. 32) Friedrich Miiller's estimate of " about 100 different families;" and... | |
 | American Philological Association - Philology - 1881 - 658 pages
...language that no one who writes on the subject can do without them. For example : he speaks (ii. 31) of " the genealogical classification of languages, that...mounting up, as it were, to a single parent-speech." He approves and accepts (ii. 32) Friedrich Miiller's estimate of " about 100 different families ; "... | |
 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Comparative linguistics - 1883 - 490 pages
...can throw a group of languages and dialects together, and assert their connection one with another. The genealogical classification of languages, that...evidence of grammar and roots. Unless the grammar ^^H agrees, no amount of similarity between the roots of two languages could warrant us in comparing... | |
 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Comparative linguistics - 1890 - 440 pages
...can throw a group of languages and dialects together, and assert their connection one with another. The genealogical classification of languages, that...as it were, to a single parent-speech, is based on : evidence of grammar and roots. Unless the grammar agrees, no amount of similarity between the roots... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1899 - 454 pages
...their objections are due to unfamiliarity with the Polynesian side of the question. Sayce declares that "unless the grammar agrees, no amount of similarity between the roots of the two languages could warrant us in comparing them together.'and referring them to the same stock."... | |
 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Comparative linguistics - 1900 - 432 pages
...can throw a group of languages and dialects together, and assert their connection one with another. The genealogical classification of languages, that...them together, and referring them to the same stock. Accidental resemblances of sound and sense between words are to be found all the world over, and the... | |
 | James Hastings - Reference - 2004 - 512 pages
...to the Science of Language, 1880, ii. 31 f.) : ‘ The genealogical classification of Ian. guages, that which divides them into families and sub.families,...them together, and referring them to the same stock. . . . The test of linguistic kinship is agreement in structure (ie the formation of sentences], grammar,... | |
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The genealogical classification of languages, that which divides them into families and subfamilies, each mounting up, as it were, to a single parentspeech, is based on the evidence of grammar and roots. Unless the grammar agrees, no amount of similarity... 