Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William Dwight Whitney

9780266926412: Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science (Classic Reprint)

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I will refer only to Mr Farrar's Chapters on Language (london and to Professor Wedgwood's little book, On the Origin of Lan: guage (london.

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William Dwight Whitney (1827–94) was the foremost American philologist and Sanskrit scholar of the nineteenth century. This 1867 work brought recent German scholarship to a wider Anglophone audience. He deals with English and its variants (including American English), the Indo-European language family and methods of linguistic research.

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The late William Dwight Whitney was Professor of Sanskrit at Yale University, Knight of the Prussian Orden Pour le Merite, Corresponding Member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institute of France, etc., and Editor-in-Chief of "The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language".

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