Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William Dwight Whitney

 
9780266926412: Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Excerpt from Language and the Study of Language<br/><br/>I will refer only to Mr Farrar's Chapters on Language (london and to Professor Wedgwood's little book, On the Origin of Lan: guage (london....

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Book Description

William Dwight Whitney (1827-94) was the foremost American philologist and Sanskrit scholar of the nineteenth century. This 1867 work brought recent German scholarship to a wider Anglophone audience. He deals with English and its variants (including American English), the Indo-European language family and methods of linguistic research.

About the Author

The late William Dwight Whitney was Professor of Sanskrit at Yale University, Knight of the Prussian Orden Pour le Merite, Corresponding Member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institute of France, etc., and Editor-in-Chief of "The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language".

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