First of all history had its effect, and then linguistics brought about the greatest diversion among philologists themselves, and even the desertion of many of them.
Lieutenant, have this transmission switched to the linguistics section.
Would that I could place in sharp contrast to this the state of American linguistics in our own country!
To both of these the science of Linguistics is more and more perceived to be a powerful, an indispensable auxiliary.
It is useless for any one to write about the religion of an American tribe who has not prepared himself by a study of its language, and acquainted himself with the applications of linguistics to mythology.
I am well aware of the limits which a wise caution assigns to the employment of linguistics in ethnology, and I am only too familiar with the many foolish, unscientific attempts to employ it with reference to the American race.
If they are essential to a comprehension of the red race, not less so are they to the science of linguistics in general.
Central America a very excellent list of the works on the linguistics of the natives, which are all contained also in the Catalogue of the Pinart-Brasseur sale, which took place in Paris in January and February, 1884.
Duponceau on the history and linguistics of the Lenni Lenape.
IT cannot be said that the study of American linguistics has advanced to a position wholly satisfactory.
The branch of linguistics which deals with meanings, synonyms, translations, definitions, etc.
When properly systematized (according to a special science to which the name of 'ergonics' has been given) this particular branch of linguistics shows us how to form the largest possible number of sentences with the fewest words.
Linguistics is a science, language-teaching is largely a science, but the practical study of languages is not; let us remember this primordial fact while we are endeavouring to make our subjects interesting.
As a contribution to the literature of the subject, the volume is entirely devoid of worth and statements concerninglinguistics or events have little value.
It becomes the end with linguistics the means, and this is the true relation between them.
Linguistics or the classification of languages, including general grammar.
In connection with the training of the modern philologist the influence of the science of linguistics should be mentioned and judged; a philologist should rather turn aside from it .
A very curious development of child-linguistics is seen in the so-called ABC Rhymes.
Proceedings in this case meant great round eyes rolling in tremendous sockets, a tongue free with the dialects and linguistics of every mixture, and a temperament free from ambition or guile.
Or perhaps their linguistics will make ours vulgar and primitive by comparison.
The science of linguistics is very modern, and that even so perfect an idiom as the Nahuatl could command the attention of scholars for its own sake, had not dawned on the minds of patrons of learning.
Spanish scholars could not render a greater service to American ethnology and linguistics than in the publication of this valuable monument.
From his lifelong studies in linguistics in connection with his research in “the motifs of civilizations and cultures,” he comes well-equipped to take up the difficult and all-absorbing study of American hieroglyphic writing.
The errors and sophistries charged against ethnological linguistics are rather an accidental result of the individuality of single investigators, than essential to the subject.
