The noted Colombian philologist Rufino Cuervo, in a controversy with the genial conservative Valera, voiced his belief that the Spanish of the new world would grow more and more unlike the parent tongue.
Through its name ak, the goose symbol became the synonym of all ak or ka words.
It is impossible not to realize that, in ancient Mexico, the pyramid constituted an image of the entire system.
It is the merit of the late distinguished philologist Dr.
After a distinguished career at school and college, he adopted the law as his profession, and in 1837 married the highly gifted but eccentric Augusta Marie, daughter of the philologist Peter Oluf Brondsted.
The attitude of the philologist towards antiquity is apologetic, or else dictated by the view that what our own age values can likewise be found in antiquity.
But if this antiquity has been wrongly valued, then the whole foundation upon which the high position of the philologist is based suddenly collapses.
The connection between humanism and religious rationalism was emphasised as a Saxonian trait by Kochly: the type of this philologist is Gottfried Hermann.
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 .
Philologist after philologist has swooped down on Homer in the mistaken belief that something of him can be obtained by force.
The admiration which a discriminating man acquires as a philologistis in proportion to the rarity of the discrimination to be found in philologists.
The inability of the philologist to train his pupils, even with the help of the ancients.
Thus the philologist himself is not the aim of philology.
The philologist is thus a great sceptic in the present conditions of our culture and training · that is his mission.
On inquiring into the origin of the philologist I find: 1.
Effect of antiquity on the non-philologist likewise nothing.
But even into these recesses the comparative philologist can follow language, thus discovering a reason even for what in reality was irrational and wrong.
They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up.
If it were necessary for the comparative philologist to acquire a critical or practical acquaintance with all the languages which form the subject of his inquiries, the science of language would simply be an impossibility.
Nodier, who had been in Scotland and, as has been said, was a philologist of the better class, is scrupulously exact in spelling proper names as a rule.
Footnote 9: The writings of this very productive philologist and historian are however more remarkable for boldness and singularity of assertion, than for depth.
If we may confide in a remark of the profound philologist J.
To specify the marks, by which the philologistrecognizes to which of these families each nation belongs, seems to be here out of place.
He may have used the word philologist somewhat loosely on occasion.
Dr Hake's impartiality gives greater weight to his testimony when he tells of Borrow's first meeting with Dr Robert Latham, the ethnologist, philologist and grammarian.
Then he has been taken to task for not being a philologist as well as a linguist.
These provincial modes of speech have often actually preserved for us the origin of English phraseology, and enlightened the philologistin a path unexplored.
Thus it was, by apparently very rude dialects, this famous philologist was enabled to substantiate beyond doubt a signification which had occurred to no one but himself.
One hardly expected to meet with such a Narcissus of literature in an old Anglo-Saxon, philologist of the year so far gone by, yet we now find that Orm might fairly exult in his Ormulum!
Too often wanting sufficient data, the toil of the antiquary becomes baffled, and the microscopic eye of the philologist pores on empty space.
He was a man of great versatility and extensive learning, a philologist and philosopher as well as a theologian, and a very voluminous author.
Doderlein's most elaborate work as a philologist was marred by over-subtlety, and lacked method and clearness.
Whitney's merits as a Sanskrit scholar and comparativephilologist are fully acknowledged, not only in this country, but by the eminent Orientalists of Europe.
Two authors, Meringer and Mayer (a philologist and a psychiatrist) did indeed in 1895 make the attempt to approach the problem of slips of the tongue from this side.
As to their poetic use, however, it would not be surprising if we should glean more information concerning slips of the tongue from the poet than from the philologistor the psychiatrist.
And such a usefully employed philologist would now fain be a teacher!
To the philologist spelling is the application of an alphabet to the words of a language, and an alphabet is merely a system of visible signs adapted to translate to the eye the sounds which make up the speech of the people.
To the philologist an alphabet is not a thing in itself, but only a medium, and he knows many alphabets of all degrees of excellence.
Remember that this young philologist was a musician as well as a brilliant scholar.
Byington, is admirable; it is that of a philologist and a versatile scholar.
But the field of English dialects offers other allurements besides those which attract the philologist and the grammarian.
The famous philologist Boekh was the orator, and from the gallery above his head songs were sung by the University choir, under the leadership of Music-Director Zelter, Goethe's correspondent.
Poets inscribed their verses to him; a philologist like Thiersch dedicated his Pindar to him, and compared German to Greek gymnastics; two universities invested him with an honorary degree.
He was a philologistas well as a poet, and published many works on language.
Philologist and poet; author of 'Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect,' 37.
It was, indeed, his interest in Greek literature and life that made him a philologist by profession, and the same interest that converted him from a philologist into a philosopher.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "philologist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
