10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYSYLLABISM»
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polysyllabism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The New Monthly Magazine
In language purely oral, polysyllabism is only evident in the varied inflections of
the same given word ; and where inflection is wanting, is the creature of writing
only, and out of that has no existence. For being in its principle, the union of two
or ...
2
The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and ...
Polysyllabism could not be primitive, on account of its complexity. There was a
necessity which limited its growth under rhythmic laws, and these laws remain
open to our observation in the Tartar languages. Primitive speech would be ...
Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, George Roy Badenoch, 1891
3
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
And, again, the alleged grand distinction of monosyllabism aud polysyllabism
upon which the inunity of the Tartars has been so confidently rested, is shown to
be valueless ; the so-called mono- syllabism being not really such, and the so ...
4
History of the New World Called America: book II. Aboriginal ...
ORALISAT1ON AND POLYSYLLABISM. 139 the guttural explodent, naturally
yields to i (ee) after the BOOK II. lingual, and to u after the labial one ; when these
com- Aboriginal binations occur, as in 'Titicaca,' language strikes its natural ...
5
Babylonian and Oriental Record: A Monthly Magazine of the ...
He believed ha saw a proof of polysyllabism in the grouping of the necessary
characters used to indicate the casual modifications by analogy with the
declension of the classical tongues, which the missionaries had imitated in their
first ...
6
By-paths of Bible Knowledge
Polysyllabism thus became inevitable in new languages. Wherever
monosyllabism lingers, it is to be viewed as an heirloom of primaeval times and a
characteristic of primaeval types. We find traces of the primitive trinitarianism in
India.
7
In the Path of the Alphabet: An Historical Account of the ...
He points to the fact that certain words indicate a former polysyllabism and from
this infers that the language as it now appears is an example of phonetic decay.
Others, on the contrary, see in the occasional but rare evidences of agglutination,
...
Frances Delavan Page Jermain, 1906
8
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
And, again, the alleged grand distinction of monosyllabism and polysyllabism
upon which the inunity of the Tartsrs has been so confidently rested, is shown to
be valueless; the so-called monosyllabism being not really such, and the so
called ...
Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India), 1855
9
The New monthly magazine and universal register
In language purely oral, polysyllabism is only evident in the varied inflections of
the same given word ; and where inflection is wanting, is the creature of writing
only, and out of that has no existence. For being in its principle, the union of t»o
or ...
10
Babylonian & Oriental Record
He believed he saw a proof 'of polysyllabism in the grouping of the necessary
characters used to indicate the casual modifications by analogy with the
declension of the classical tongues, which the missionaries had imitated in their
first ...
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