Philological Monographs Of The American Philological Association

Author : American Philological Association
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458947031
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the American Philological Association written by American Philological Association and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III.?Strictures on the Views of Augnvt Schhicher respecting the Nature of Language and kindred aubjects. By WILLIAM D. WHITNEY, PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT AND COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY IN YALB COLLKOK. Thk name of Hchleicher cannot he uttered by any student of comparative philology of the present generation without respect and admiration. Especially now, when the memory of his early and lamented death is so recent, no one can desire to remember aught of him save his immense industry and erudition, his ardor iu the pursuit of the science to which his life was devoted, his critical acuteness, his liberal and independent spirit, his love of freedom, and the many other excellencies of his character as man and as scholar. His part in the development of the historical study of language was no unimportant one. His manual of Indo-European comparative grammar has been the convenient and instructive text-book out of which many, in various lands, have drawn a knowledge and love of the subject; and, being now in process of translation into English, its usefulness among English speakers will soon be largely increased. If I, then, take the liberty to criticise and combat in this paper some of his fundamental views of language, I do it with no abatement of due respect to him, but because he stands forth as a very conspicuous representative of what I cannot but think a false and hurtful tendency in a part of modern linguistic science; and because his great and deserved reputation as a philologist, a comparative student of the facts of language and their concrete relations, gives a dangerous importance to his opinions .as a glossologist, or student of the theory and philosophy of language. There is, unfortunately, no necessary connection between eminence in one of these characters and in the othe...