The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Daniel G. Brinton

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       Daniel G. Brinton

      The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt

      With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066172527

      Table of Contents

       The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages.

       § 1. Introductory.

       § 2. Humboldt’s Studies in American Languages.

       § 3. The Final Purpose of the Philosophy of Language.

       § 4. Historical, Comparative and Philosophic Grammar.

       § 5. Definition and Psychological Origin of Language.

       § 6. Primitive Roots and Grammatical Categories.

       § 7. Formal and Material Elements of Language.

       § 8. The Development of Languages.

       § 9. Internal Form of Languages.

       § 10. Criteria of Rank in Languages.

       § 11. Classification of Languages.

       § 12. Nature of Incorporation.

       § 13. Psychological Origin of Incorporation.

       § 14. Effect of Incorporation on Compound Sentences.

       § 15. The Dual in American Languages.

       § 16. Humboldt’s Essay on the American Verb.

       On the Verb in American Languages. By Wilhelm von Humboldt

       I. When the notion of Being is expressed independently.

       II. The notion of Being is incorporated with the verb as an Auxiliary.

       III. The notion of Being is present in the Verbal form only in idea.

       Notes (by the translator) on the various American Tribes and Languages mentioned by Humboldt in the preceding Memoir.

       LIBRARY —OF— ABORIGINAL AMERICAN LITERATURE.

       RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY.