Third, it is desirable that many simple phrases and sentences should be given--so chosen as to bring out the more important characteristics of grammatic structure.
Consists of texts with interlinear translation, grammatic notes, words, phrases, and sentences.
Consists of a letter, grammatic notes, and dictionary of 2,000 words.
Abnaki language, including brief grammatic remarks, a table of abbreviations, and the Abnaki-English dictionary from A to H, inclusive.
Vocabulary of the Zuñian Language, with grammatic remarks.
Accompanied by a few grammatic notes and three stories with interlinear English translation.
The old Latin roots and grammaticforms all retain the analogies of the Aryan families.
Some traces of grammatic likeness to the Semitic may be found in it; yet the view of Bunsen and Schwartz, that in very ancient times it arose from the union of Semitic and Indo-European languages, remains only a hypothesis.
The grammatic science, among the Romans, was not confined to the inflections of words or rules of syntax.
Thence he repaired to Pueblo Seri, and early in April obtained there a Seri-Spanish vocabulary of several hundred words, with a number of short phrases throwing some light on the grammatic construction.
The grammatic construction of Seri speech appears not to differ greatly from that of other tongues of Sonora and Arizona; it is highly complex and associative.
On the Evolution of Language, as Exhibited in the Specialization of the Grammatic Processes, the Differentiation of the Parts of Speech, and the Integration of the Sentence; from a Study of Indian Languages, by J.
This approach to a grammatic division of substantives maybe correlated with the mode in which many tribes, especially the Dakotas, designate names in their pictographs, i.
Not only for ethnographic purposes are they useful, but their primitive aspects and methods of presenting ideas enable us to solve psychological and grammatic problems more completely than other tongues.
This is nothing more than a familiar, nigh universal, grammatic process carried to an extreme degree.
A loose sentence is one in which the meaning and the grammatic structure are complete at some point before the end; a periodic sentence is one in which sense and sentence end together.
The sense and the grammatic construction are both complete at the middle of the sentence.
It therefore becomes necessary in the classification of Indian languages into families to neglect grammatic structure, and to consider lexical elements only.
The paradigmatic words considered ingrammatic treatises may often be the very words which should be dissected to discover in their elements primary affinities.
Many thousand printed vocabularies, embracing numerous larger lexic and grammatic works, have been studied and compared.
The languages are many and greatly diverse in their characteristics, in grammatic as well as in lexic elements.
When the members of a family of languages are to be classed in subdivisions and the history of such languages investigated, grammatic characteristics become of primary importance.
Grammatic methods also change, perhaps even more rapidly than words, and the changes may go on to such an extent that primitive methods are entirely lost, there being no radical grammatic elements to be preserved.
In the preface to the “Manual” he enumerates the tribes and sets forth some phonetic and grammatic differences between the dialects.
Grammatic structure is but a phase or accident of growth, and not a primordial element of language.
A lexic comparison is between vocal elements; a grammatic comparison is between grammatic methods, such, for example, as gender systems.
All of these things are held to belong to the grammar of a language and to be grammatic methods, distinct from lexical elements.
Grammatic similarities are not supposed to furnish evidence of cognation, but to be phenomena, in part relating to stage of culture and in part adventitious.
The syntax is remarkably simple and uniform; the multiplicity of grammatic forms precludes the formation of many syntactic rules, just as in Sanscrit.
Therefore the frequently-expressed opinion that the languages of barbaric peoples have a more highly organized grammatic structure than the languages of civilized peoples has its complete refutation.
It may or may not have been an original grammatic process, but because of its importance in certain languages it has been found necessary to deal with it as a distinct and original process.
Intonation is used as a grammatic process only to a limited extent--simply to assist in forming the interrogative and imperative modes.
In English, three of the grammatic processes are highly specialized.
This approach to a grammatic division of substantives maybe correlated with the mode in which many tribes, especially the Dakotas, designate names in their pictographs, i.
