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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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). Volume 2 deals with language groups (both ancient
and modern), examining separately the inflexional families with
their root/inflection system, and the systems of agglutinative
languages, before discussing comparative mythology, the origins of
language, and the place of the science of language in the wider
social sciences. Sayce also provides a bibliography for students.
THIS 180 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Lectures on the
Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of the
Ancient Babylonians, by A. H. Sayce. To purchase the entire book,
please order ISBN 0766190064.
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