This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter V. the development of language. 86. (44) We have seen in the preceding investigations that the downhill theory does not hold good for languages" in historic times; on the contrary, languages seem to be on the whole constantly progressive, not only with regard to the development of their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter V. the development of language. 86. (44) We have seen in the preceding investigations that the downhill theory does not hold good for languages" in historic times; on the contrary, languages seem to be on the whole constantly progressive, not only with regard to the development of their vocabulary, where nobody ever denied it, but also in grammar, where philologists of the old school were able to see only decay and retrogression. And besides establishing this progressive tendency, we have also incidentally seen some at least of the often unexpected ways which lead languages to develop new grammatical forms and expressions. We are thus prepared to enter into a criticism of that theory concerning the prehistoric development of Arian speech which has met with greatest favour among philologists, and which has been expounded with greatest precision and consistency by Schleicher. The theory, as will be remembered, was this: an originally isolating language, consisting of formless roots, passed through an agglutinating stage, in which formal elements had been developed, although these and the roots were mutually independent, to the third and highest stage found in flexional languages, in which formal elements penetrated the roots and made inseparable unities with them. 87. (45) First, as regards the postulated root stage, we have seen how the support which Chinese was supposed to lend to the theory has broken down. But also from other quarters the belief in such a starting-point has been shaken. An investigation of Old Arian phonetic laws has led some philologists to doubt the supposition, which is essentially due to the old Indian grammarians, that roots were always monosyllabic; and now many prefer fancying the roots as dissyllabics....
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