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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 3 1 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ually certain that the evidence did not warrant Muller's assertion of a multiple origin—languages springing up here, there, and everywhere upon the surface of the earth. The trend of Whitney's opinion, though he asserts nothing positively, is towards a single primal language. As in Indology, so in general linguistics, Whitney left a school, represented in Germany by the so-called Jung-Grammatiker, who include Osthoff, Brugmann, Leskien, Fick, and Paul, and in the United States by Professor Hanns Oertel and other disciples. They emphasize the importance of analogy and of phonetic economy, as chief among the psychic factors that must be added to the physical in order to account fully for linguistic change. All Whitney's modes of thinking tended away from those integrations which take the investigator back towards undifferentiated origins, and worked forward among the differentiations that account for linguistic progress towards the present and the future. Whitney is much more inte
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
ons concerning the increase of mankind, 428 Observations on the Act for granting an Excise on Wine, 427 Observations on the agriculture . . . of the United States, 429 Observations on the language of Chaucer, 484 Observations on the source and effects of unequal wealth, 436 O'Callaghan, E. B., 179, 180 Ocean burial, 514 Octopus, the, 93 Octoroon, the, 266 Ode in time of hesitation, 64 Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial on Boston common, 37 Ode to Shelley, 41 Oertel, Hanns, 469 Officer 666, 295 Ogden, Peter Skene, 137, 139 O. Henry. See Porter, W. S. Oithono, 582 O Keepa, A Religious Ceremony, 149 Old and New, 121 Old Cambridge, 119 Old Dan Tucker, 516 Old Grumbly, 511 Old Homestead, 285 Old Lavender, 279 Old man under the Hill, the, 514 Old New York, 179 Old regime in Canada, the, 190 Old Santa Fe Trail, the, 133 Old Schoolhouse on the Creek, the, 584 Old South Leaflets, 166 Old sweetheart of mine, an, 6 Old Sw