Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics)

Whitney, William Dwight

ISBN 10: 1108062776 / ISBN 13: 9781108062770

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2013

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• Titolo: Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1108062776
• ISBN 13: 9781108062770
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Published in 1867, Yale professor Whitney's lectures on linguistics brought influential German theories on philology to an Anglophone audience.

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William Dwight Whitney (1827–94) was the foremost American philologist and Sanskrit scholar of the nineteenth century. This 1867 work brought recent German scholarship to a wider Anglophone audience. He deals with English and its variants (including American English), the Indo-European language family and methods of linguistic research.