 | Mark Durie, Malcolm Ross - 1996 - 330 páginas
...of the people. The guiding principles for linguistic research should accordingly be deduced not from obsolete written languages of antiquity, but chiefly...from the living popular dialects of the present day (61). It is of far greater importance to collect further facts from living languages, in order to draw... | |
 | Lyle Campbell - 2004 - 478 páginas
...of the people. The guiding principles for linguistic research should accordingly be deduced not from obsolete written languages of antiquity, but chiefly...from the living popular dialects of the present day. (1882 [1880]: 61) In short, the existence of an old written tradition with older texts is by no means... | |
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Delbriick affirmed in his influential neogrammarian introduction to linguistics: This natural constitution of language is not manifested in the cultivated tongues, but in the dialects of the people. The guiding principles for linguistic research should... 