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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Schele de Vere, M. (Maximilian), 1820-1898. Outlines of comparative philology. New-York : G.P. Putnam & Co., 1853 (OCoLC)591189717 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
M Schele de Vere; Walt Whitman; Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) |
| OCLC Number: | 560712 |
| Description: | 434 pages ; 19 cm |
| Contents: | What is language? -- Unity of language -- Opinions of Prichard, Picket, and Bopp -- History of Comparative Philology -- Want of material -- First attempts in comparative philology -- Literature of comparative philology -- Leibnitz -- Present state of comparative philology -- Practical results of comparative philology -- Comparative philology and history -- Anglo Saxon and English history -- Comparative Philology and recent discoveries -- Languages and national character -- The Indo-European languages -- The Sanscrit as oldest of Indo-European languages -- The ruling languages of the world -- Purposes of comparative philology -- Physical influences operating on language -- Conquest operating on language -- The Norman Conquest of England The Anglo Saxon and the church -- Restoration of the Anglo Saxon -- The English resulting from the amaigamation -- The occupation of a nation operating on language -- Fashion operating on language -- Literature operating on language -- English literature and the English language -- They Rhymour -- Occleve and Lydgate -- Henry VIII -- The English reformers -- The restoration -- American English -- Philosophie results of comparative philology -- Methods of comparative philology -- The moral principle in language -- The three great classes of languages -- The history of languages -- The decay of languages -- The increase of langauges -- Borrowed words pt. 2. The languages of Europe. Monosyllabic languages -- Agglutinizing languages of Europe -- Caucasian family -- The inflecting languages of Europe -- Indo-European family -- Pelasgic group -- Latin -- Lettic-Slavic group -- Slavic -- Western branch -- Germanic group: low German -- High German -- Celtic group -- Artificial languages pt. 3. History of writing. Pictorial writing -- Invention of letters -- Consonants and vowels -- Chinese writing -- Persian writing -- Egyptian writing -- Phoenician writing -- Greek writing -- German writing -- Sclovic writing -- Runic writing -- Materials of writing -- Use of metal -- Bark -- Papyrus -- Use of skins -- Paper -- Instruments of writing. |
| Responsibility: | by M. Schele de Vere. |
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