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The Principles of Comparative Philology (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics) (in English)
Archibald Henry Sayce (Author)
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Cambridge University Press
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The Principles of Comparative Philology (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics) (in English) - Archibald Henry Sayce
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Synopsis "The Principles of Comparative Philology (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics) (in English)"
Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933) became interested in Middle Eastern languages and scripts while still a teenager. Old Persian and Akkadian cuneiform had recently been deciphered, and popular enthusiasm for these discoveries was running high when Sayce began his academic career at Oxford in 1869. This 1874 work, based on a series of lectures, discusses the relatively new science of comparative philology, its disciplines and its relationship to physiology, history, and religion. The work describes the ways in which the laws of language, and especially of language change and development, can be hypothesised and tested. Sayce also considers, and takes issue with, the notion of 'the metaphysics of language', and examines the significance of comparative philology to the study of comparative religion and mythology. The final chapter deals with the specific issue of analogy in language development, in particular in relation to changes in pronunciation and word-stress.
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