Transactions of the American Philological Association, Volúmenes1-5Ginn & Company, 1871 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
a. i. sc Abnaki accent acute adjective adverb Algonkin Algonkin languages American Anglo-Saxon appears Baraga belongs called Celtic Chip Chippeway circumflex common comp compound consonant corresponding Cree Creole Curtius declension Delaware denotes derived dialect diphthong distinction Eliot Ellis English examples expression fact father finger French German give Grammar grammarians Greek Grimm's Law hand Hayti Hidatsa Indian indicative inflection Latin lengthened letters Mass meaning middle tone middle Welsh modern natural noun numerals object old Welsh origin Ormulum participle peculiar penult person plural Prât prefix preposition present probably pronounced pronunciation protasis quantity Quiripi reduplication represented root Sanskrit Saxon seems short vowel singular sonant sound Spanish speech spirant stem subjunctive suffix surd syllable tense theory thou Thucydides tion translation tribes Tupí udatta verb verbal vocabulary vowel words writing Xenophon καὶ μὴ οὐ
Pasajes populares
Página 30 - This day learned that the Caucus Club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the Adjutant of the Boston Regiment. He has a large house, and he has a movable partition in his garret which he takes down, and the whole club meets in one room. There they smoke tobacco till you cannot see from one end of the garret to the other. There they drink flip, I suppose, and there they choose a moderator, who puts questions...
Página 101 - Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 84 - ... expended ; the greater part of what is said and written upon it is mere windy talk, the assertion of subjective views which commend themselves to no mind save the one that produces them, and which are apt to be offered with a confidence, and defended with a tenacity, that are in inverse ratio to their acceptableness. This has given the whole question a bad repute among sober-minded philologists...
Página 127 - I have had also the opportunity of repeated conversations with a young man, who between the age of seven and fourteen (he is now eighteen) lived in Hayti, and has a good command of the Creole. 2. Trinidad. Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar, by JJ Thomas, Port of Spain (Trinidad), 1869, 8vo, pp. 134; the most extended and valuable work on the grammar of the language. 3. Martinique. Les Bambous : Fables de La Fontaine, travesties en patois Creole (by M. Marbot). Nouv.
Página 86 - Man loses his instincts as he ceases to want them. His senses become fainter when, as in the case of scent, they become useless. Thus the creative faculty which gave to each conception, as it thrilled for the first time through the brain, a phonetic expression, became extinct when its object was fulfilled.
Página 21 - One part of the religious superstition of the Savages, consists in each of them having his totam, or favorite spirit, which he believes watches over him. This totam they conceive assumes the shape of some beast or other, and therefore they never kill, hunt, or eat the animal whose form they think this totam bears.
Página 123 - Creole dialects] have passed through are not essentially different in kind, and hardly greater in extent than those, for instance, which separate the French from the Latin, but from the greater violence of the forces at work they have been for more rapid.
Página 84 - Why Falinus, we have now but these two things left, our arms and our virtue ; and if we yield up our arms, how shall we make use of our virtue ? Whereto Falinus smiling on him, said, If I be not deceived, young gentleman, you are an Athenian ; and I believe you study philosophy, and it is pretty that you say; but you are much abused if you think your virtue can withstand the kinofs power.
Página 29 - Adams' father and twenty others, one or two from the north end of the town, where all the ship business is carried on, used to meet, make a caucus, and lay their plans for introducing certain persons into places of trust and power.
Página 37 - Glottik, the science of language, is accordingly a natural science ; its method is on the whole and in general the same with that of the other natural sciences." Here, again, we have statements akin with those which are not seldom made by writers on language, only usually in less definite and categorical shape.