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The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt: With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb — John Shaqi

The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt: With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American VerbBrinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)

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The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt: With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb

Name: The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt: With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb
Author: Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)

Grammar, Comparative and general; Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1767-1835; Indians -- Languages

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Transcriber’s Note

A number of typographical errors have been maintained in this version
of this book. They have been marked with a [TN-#], which refers to a
description in the complete list found at the end of the text.

The following codes for less common characters were used:

  ā  a with macron
  ū  u with macron
  †  dagger
  ‡  double dagger
  ‖  double vertical line



  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  WITH THE TRANSLATION OF AN UNPUBLISHED MEMOIR BY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.

  --BY--

  DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D.,

  PROFESSOR OF ETHNOLOGY AND ARCHÆOLOGY AT THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES,
  PHILADELPHIA.

  President of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia;
  Member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Antiquarian
  Society, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, etc.; Membre de la
  Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord; de la Société Américaine
  de France; Délégué Général de l'Institution Ethnographique;
  Vice-Président du Congrès International des Américanistes;
  Corresponding Member of the Anthropological
  Society of Washington, etc.

  (_Read before the American Philosophical Society, March 20, 1885._)

  PHILADELPHIA:
  PRESS OF MCCALLA & STAVELY, 237-9 DOCK STREET.
  1885.




CONTENTS.


_The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages._


   §1. Introduction, p. 3. §2. Humboldt’s Studies in American Languages,
     p. 4. §3. The Final Purpose of the Philosophy of Language, p. 7.
     §4. Historical, Comparative and Philosophic Grammar, p. 9. §5.
     Definition and Psychological Origin of Language, p. 10. §6.
     Primitive Roots and Grammatical Categories, p. 11. §7. Formal and
     Material Elements of Language, p. 13. §8. The Development of
     Languages, p. 14. §9. Internal Form of Languages, p. 16. §10.
     Criteria of Rank in Languages, p. 17. §11. Classification of
     Languages, p. 21. §12. Nature of Incorporation, p. 22. §13.
     Psychological Origin of Incorporation, p. 24. §14. Effect of
     Incorporation on Compound Sentences, p. 25. §15. The Dual in
     American Languages, p. 27. §16. Humboldt’s Essay on the American
     Verb, p. 28.


_On the Verb in American Languages. By Wilhelm von Humboldt, p. 29._

Verbal forms classified as they indicate the notion of Being:

I. When the notion of Being is expressed independently, p. 31.

   1. When the notion of Being is understood, p. 32. 2. When the notion
     of Being is expressed by a special word, but without a phonetic
     radical, p. 35.

II. The notion of Being is incorporated with the verb as an auxiliary,
p. 37.

   Analysis of the Maya Verb, p. 38. Other Examples. The idea of past
     time as related to death and negation, p. 40.

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