| Edwin Bryant - 2001 - 400 páginas
...mangaldcdra of comparative philology: The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all... | |
| Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demer, Ann K. Farmer, Robert M. Harnish - 2001 - 628 páginas
...antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin ... yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both...roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all... | |
| Edo Nyland - 2001 - 576 páginas
...languages, such as Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Celtic and Persian must come from the same source: "a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that nophilologer could examine them all... | |
| Li Jin, Mark Seielstad, Chunjie Xiao - 2001 - 196 páginas
...copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all... | |
| Jonathan D. Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero - 2002 - 360 páginas
...Greek, Latin, and English. The often-quoted observation states that "The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure; more perfect...roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all... | |
| Kirsten Malmkjær - 2002 - 696 páginas
...existed. In his words (in Lehmann 1967: 15): The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all... | |
| Terry Crowley - 2002 - 308 páginas
...related idea of language families back in l786: The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure: more perfect than the Greek,...roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident: so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all... | |
| Mariasusai Dhavamony - 2002 - 234 páginas
...wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latm, and more exquisitely refmed than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger...of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accidem; so strong indeed that no philologer could examine them all... | |
| Spencer Wells - 2002 - 264 páginas
...noted that Sanskrit (the religious language of Hinduism) bore a closer resemblance to Greek and Latin 'both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident'. So much so, he concluded, that they must 'have sprung from... | |
| Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller - 2003 - 854 páginas
...William Jones' (17461794) statement in 1786: The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek,...roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all... | |
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