Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) became interested in Middle
Eastern languages and scripts while still a teenager. Old Persian
and Akkadian cuneiform had recently been deciphered, and popular
enthusiasm for these discoveries was running high when Sayce began
his academic career at Oxford in 1869. In this two-volume work of
1880, Sayce attempts to give 'a systematic account of the Science
of Language, its nature, its progress and its aims'. As he
explains, the methods and theories which underlie the work were set
out in his 1874 Principles of Comparative Philology (also reissued
in this series). In Volume 1, Sayce outlines the history of
theories of language, and the development of a science of language,
and considers the causes of language change, phonology, morphology
and comparative syntax. Chapter appendices examine topics such as
the vocal organs of animals and the various phonetic alphabets then
in use.
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