Opis: Language-Study Based on Bantu or an Inquiry Into the Laws of Root-Formation - Kolbe F. W.

Excerpt from Language-Study Based on Bantu or an Inquiry Into the Laws of Root-Formation: The Original Plural, the Sexual Dual, and the Principles of Word-Comparison; Tables Illustrating the Primitive Pronominal System Restored in the African Bantu Family of Speech

The author, who since 1853 has been a missionary of the London Missionary Society, and before that time was connected with the Rhenish Herero Mission in Damaraland, is, as far as philology is concerned, a self-taught worker. When sent to Damaraland in 1848, he could not possibly have dreamt of ever writing a treatise on the Principles of Language. But when, in conjunction with his colleagues, the Rev. Dr. C. H. Hahn and the Rev. J. Rath, he studied Herero, he was from the very first fascinated with its marvellous structural regularity and wealth of pronominal forms. Fortunately, he knew from Gesenius's Hebrew Grammar and Heyse's Lehrbuch der Deutschen Sprache that there are only three primitive vowels (a, i, u), and was struck to find only these three in the pronominal roots of Herero; and in grouping the formative prefixes of the noun (or roots of pronouns) according to their consonantal sounds, he conjectured that there must be some difference of meaning between such forms as oka- (KA), otyi- (KI), oku- (KU), and that this difference must be caused hythe vowels. And turning to the verb, he received the same impression, though what that difference might be he had not the remotest conception.

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Szczegóły: Language-Study Based on Bantu or an Inquiry Into the Laws of Root-Formation - Kolbe F. W.

Nazwa: Language-Study Based on Bantu or an Inquiry Into the Laws of Root-Formation The Original Plural, the Sexual Dual, and the Principles of Word-Comparison; Tables Illustrating the Primitive Pronominal System Restored in the African Bantu Family of Speech
Autor: Kolbe F. W.
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330654224
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 116
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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