Introduction to the Study of Language: a Critical Survey of the History And Methods of Comparative Philology of the Indo-European Languages
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I will discuss these three notions in inverse order.
In regard to the last point, the influence of sense on sound, I cannot convince myself that Curtius' view is the correct one. There is an objection to it on general grounds. It seems to me we are not justified in assuming that the Hindus and Greeks had a perception, which we have ceased to possess, of the significance of the individual sound in a linguistic form. For they, as well as we, had only completed words, which were transmitted to the...m from generation to genera- tion ; and that primeval period in which, according to the BoppiAN assumption, the Indo-European forms were con- structed, by the composition of significant elements, lay for them, no less than for us, in the twilight of the past, whence no enlightening raiy could reach them. It also seems as if, in single points, more plausible explanations might be found for several of the phenomena discussed by Curtius. Thus in my opinion the preservation of the i in the optative, referred to above, may be more correctly regarded as due to the in- Phonetic Laws.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I will discuss these three notions in inverse order.
In regard to the last point, the influence of sense on sound, I cannot convince myself that Curtius' view is the correct one. There is an objection to it on general grounds. It seems to me we are not justified in assuming that the Hindus and Greeks had a perception, which we have ceased to possess, of the significance of the individual sound in a linguistic form. For they, as well as we, had only completed words, which were transmitted to the...m from generation to genera- tion ; and that primeval period in which, according to the BoppiAN assumption, the Indo-European forms were con- structed, by the composition of significant elements, lay for them, no less than for us, in the twilight of the past, whence no enlightening raiy could reach them. It also seems as if, in single points, more plausible explanations might be found for several of the phenomena discussed by Curtius. Thus in my opinion the preservation of the i in the optative, referred to above, may be more correctly regarded as due to the in- Phonetic Laws.
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