Linguistic essays.
Series: Trübner's oriental series
Publisher: Trübner
Published: 1882
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Language; Coptic language.; English language -- Synonyms and antonyms.; Latin language -- Grammar.; Slavonic languages
Table of contents: value: Languages as the expression of national modes of thought; The conception of love in some ancient and modern languages; The English verbs of command; The discrimination of synonyms; Philological methods; The connection between dictionary and grammar; The possibility of a common literary language for the Slav nations; Gothic intensification; The origin of language; The order and position of words in the Latin sentence.