General Principles of the Structure of Language, Volumen2

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Trübner & Company, 1885

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218 Slavonic takes up into the root elements of thought expressed by changes of its vowels
249
The dual number in the Slavonic languages The plurai living force
250
Cardinal numerals their gender
251
Expression of the passive and middle
252
Concord in number between verb and subject
253
Construction of infinitive with dative verb thought in the process of accomplishment
254
Armenian PAGE 231 Three periods of the Armenian language
255
Declension of the noun apparent use of an arthritic element
256
Adjectives comparative degree
257
Numerals their inflections
258
Verb present stem formation of the parts of the verb
259
Few pure prepositions
262
Where spoken
265
Declension of the noun order of words
266
Adjective construction with its substantive degrees of com parison suffixes of degree
267
Pronouns
268
Examples
271
Conclusion Concomitant variation through all the languages of quickness of thought and contraction of object
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CHAPTER II
274
Superior subjectivity of their verb
275
Their sense of grammatical gender
276
The development of the subject and the power of selfdirection
279
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The sense of the personality of the subject in the verb is propor
285
Formation of nouns of the action and of the agent
289
The second correspondence traced through the African lan
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Genitive and adjective precede when careful attention has habi
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Particularising elements are developed according as there is weak
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the Chinese group of languages
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Gender tends to be distinguished as masculine and feminine
358
DECAY OF INFLECTIONS
368
APPENDIX
379
The peculiar endowment in man from which language springs
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