On the Evolution of Language

On the Evolution of Language - First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary...
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Author: Powell, John Wesley,1834-1902
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On the Evolution of Language

On the Evolution of Language

€6,34

On the Evolution of Language

€6,34
Author: Powell, John Wesley,1834-1902
Format: eBook
Language: English

On the Evolution of Language - First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16

Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words. Again, in the evolution of any language, progress is from a condition where few ideas are expressed by a few words to a higher, where many ideas are expressed by the use of many words; but the number of all possible ideas or thoughts expressed is increased greatly out of proportion with the increase of the number of words. And still again, in all of those languages which have been most thoroughly studied, and by inference in all languages, it appears that the few original words used in any language remain as the elements for the greater number finally used. In the evolution of a language the introduction of absolutely new material is a comparatively rare phenomenon. The old material is combined and modified in many ways to form the new. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 18818
Author: Powell, John Wesley
Release Date: Jul 13, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English

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