The Whence and Whither of the Modern Science of Language (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1333631200 ISBN 13: 9781333631208

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Whence and Whither of the Modern Science of Language

Home Tooke in the Diversions of Purley, II, 429 (1786 just before the sunrise, wrote the startling words: All those common terminations in any language are themselves separate words with distinct meanings, and (ii, 454) Adjec tiyes with such terminations lg, 0113, ful, some, isle, etc.) are. In truth, all compound words and when he flung out like a chal lenge the analvsis of Latin ibo. 'i shall go,' as three letters con taining three words, viz. I, 'go,' 6 0(ego) 'i,' no one seems to have been near enough to the need of such instruc tion to know whether or not he was to be taken seriously; for the words here no fruit, and only years afterward, when Bopp's doc trine had been recognized. Were thev disinterred as antiquarian curiosities. Eleven years later, in the full light of the Sanskrit grammar, Bopp published his Conjugationssystem, and the clue had been found. To be sure. Bopp was misguided in his belief that he could identify each element of a word-ending with a significant word, and assign to it a. Distinct. Meaning, but he had found the kev to an analysis having definite historical value and permitting the identification of such entities as mode-sign, tense sign, personal-endings. Etc. The erroneous portion of his doc trine. Based upon his conception of the indo-european as an agglutinative type of speech, dragged itself as an encumbrance through the first half-century of the science, and, though gasping, still lived in the second edition of Curtius' Verbum This, along with many other mechanical monstrosities of its kind, was graduallv banished from the linguistic arena by the saner views of the life-habits of language which had their rise from linguistic psychology as a study of the relations of language to the hearing as well as speaking individual and the relations of the individual to the speech community. And which asserted themselves with full power in the seventies.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1333631200
• ISBN 13: 9781333631208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24