First published in 1900, this is the second of two volumes of the
magnum opus from pioneer assyriologist and linguist Rev. Archibald
Sayce and continues directly from the first, providing an
introduction to linguistic roots, inflectional families of speech,
agglutinative, incorporating, polysynthetic and isolating
languages, comparative mythology, the science of religion, the
origin of language and the relation of language to ethnology, logic
and education. 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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