General principles of the structure of language, Volume 1

James Byrne

Trübner, 1885 - Grammar, Comparative and general

Contents

• BOOK II: 1
• The first of the above correspondences traced through: 4
• 1: 49
• Want of close connection of the verb with the objects: 51
• Moods: 55
• 10: 61
• Irregularities in the concord of the verb and its subject: 72
• No abstract copula: 88
• Haussa: 92
• Pronouns: 97
• Consonants and vowels: 99
• Pronouns: 100
• 171 Reduction in Africa of the object of the act of thought in the SyroArabian languages as in the Chinese group it is reduced in approaching to India: 101
• THE INDOEUROPEAN LANGUAGES 1 Characteristic difference from the SyroArabian: 102
• Object suffixes: 103
• Three genders and three numbers of the noun formations of nominal stems: 104
• Case endings: 105
• Degrees of comparison of adjectives distinction of genders: 107
• 814 Analysis of case endings: 109
• Irregularities of gender and number: 113
• Subjective process: 115
• PAGE: 116
• Makes less use of vowel changes than Arabic and discrimi: 119
• The perfect: 120
• Two future forms: 121
• Benedictive or precative formı: 122
• Infinitive: 123
• Tenses and moods reduction of subjective process in: 125
• Prepositions conjunctions: 127
• 4244 Features of syntax examples: 128
• Case construct state: 131
• Phonesis more vocalic than Sanskrit the words more separate: 132
• Three genders nominal stems substantive and adjective: 133
• 65: 134
• Connection of the construct state less close than in Arabic: 137
• 67: 140
• Gender number and case: 143
• Composition: 145
• Example: 149
• Derivative verbs and nouns: 152
• 65: 157
• Object suffixes suffixes attracted by any particle which: 160
• 64: 167
• Primitive system of the Celtic verb: 169
• Elements of relation: 176
• 180 Lithuanian roots express changes of radical meaning: 180
• changing the radical vowel which indicates a tendency of thought to spread corresponding to a degree of slowness in mental action 223: 191
• arthritic formation 144 in Gothic AngloSaxon: 193
• Lithuanian: 220
• Nominal stems: 224
• Cardinal numerals masculine and feminine gender: 225
• Person endings and tenses of the verb: 228
• Three stems of the verb distinguished by modifications of the root or of its vowel: 229
• Optative and imperative formations participles forma tions with da to do: 230
• 96: 231
• 193197 Features of syntax attributive part of the substantive weak article suffixed to adjective order of words: 232
• Strong sense of process in the verb but little subjectivity: 234
• Examples: 235
• The Slavonic race: 236
• 202204 Old Slavonic phonesis much less vocalic than Lithuanian with weak pressure of breath from the chest indolent and tenacious: 237
• Nominal stems compound nominal stems: 239
• 207210 Declension of nouns and pronouns: 240
• Declension of adjectives comparative degree: 245
• Formation of the nonpresent parts of the verb: 246
• Present parts of the verb: 247
• 67: 248
• 218 Slavonic takes up into the root elements of thought expressed by changes of its vowels: 249
• The dual number in the Slavonic languages The plural living force shows weakness in the thought of the attributive nature: 250
• Cardinal numerals their gender: 251
• Expression of the passive and middle: 252
• Concord in number between verb and subject: 253
• Construction of infinitive with dative verb thought in the process of accomplishment: 254
• Armenian PAGE 231 Three periods of the Armenian language: 255
• Declension of the noun apparent use of an arthritic element: 256
• Adjectives comparative degree: 258
• Verb present stem formation of the parts of the verb: 259
• Few pure prepositions: 262
• Comparative discussion of Armenian forms: 263
• 97: 264
• Where spoken: 265
• Declension of the noun order of words: 266
• Adjective construction with its substantive degrees of com parison suffixes of degree: 267
• Pronouns: 268
• Examples: 271
• Conclusion Concomitant variation through all the languages of quickness of thought and contraction of object: 272
• CHAPTER II: 274
• Superior subjectivity of their verb: 275
• Their sense of grammatical gender: 276
• THE FEATURES OF LANGUAGE WHICH ACCOMPANY THE HABITS: 277
• The sense of the personality of the subject in the verb is propor: 285
• the IndoEuropean and SyroArabian: 296
• The development of tense accompanies the sense of succession: 303
• 9: 310
• 4: 322
• The governing word or element is carried into close connection with: 328
• Particularising elements are developed according as there is weak: 339
• the Chinese group of languages: 350
• Gender tends to be distinguished as masculine and feminine: 358
• DECAY OF INFLECTIONS: 368
• APPENDIX: 379
• The peculiar endowment in man from which language springs: 396

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Bibliographic information

• Title: General principles of the structure of language, Volume 1; General principles of the structure of language, James Byrne
• Author: James Byrne
• Publisher: Trübner, 1885
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Feb 22, 2007