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Introduction to the Science of Language - Vol 1 (Paperback, 4th edition)
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Introduction to the Science of Language - Vol 1 (Paperback, 4th edition)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1900, this was the first of two volumes of the
magnum opus from pioneer assyriologist and linguist Rev. Archibald
Sayce and provided an introduction to theories on the nature,
behaviour and development of languages along with the morphology
and physiology of speech. In it, Sayce was the first to emphasize
the principle of partial assimilation and the linguistic principle
of analogy. This 4th edition, ten years after the first, reflected
on the limitations of science revealed since 1890, in an era when
languages, like other humanities subjects, still idealised
scientific approaches. Archibald Henry Sayce was one of the
greatest comparative linguists of the time, being proficient in
Accadian, Arabic, Cuneiform, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew,
Hittite, Japanese, Latin, Persian, Phoenician, Sanscrit and
Sumerian. He had a good knowledge of every Semitic and
Indo-European language and could write good prose in at least
twenty languages. Sayce's first major contribution to scholarship
was a highly significant translation of an Accadian seal, a
'bilingual text' from which to translate cuneiform, similar to the
Rosetta Stone. Here then, no doubt, the reader learns from a master
of comparative linguistics.
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