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Progress in Language: With Special Reference to English
Excerpt from Progress in Language
Ifi am right in my interpretation of the tendencies of recent philology, the answer cannot be doubtful; but there is as little doubt that this answer will be the exact opposite of what an older generation Of linguists would have given as their verdict. It may therefore be of some interest to examine more closely the linguistic philosophy of the age that is now going out. How did the leading men of some thirty years ago classify and estimate different types of speech, and what place did they assign to such languages as modern English?...
Ifi am right in my interpretation of the tendencies of recent philology, the answer cannot be doubtful; but there is as little doubt that this answer will be the exact opposite of what an older generation Of linguists would have given as their verdict. It may therefore be of some interest to examine more closely the linguistic philosophy of the age that is now going out. How did the leading men of some thirty years ago classify and estimate different types of speech, and what place did they assign to such languages as modern English?...
388 pages, Hardcover
First published November 19, 1993
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