30.3014, Books: The Principles of Comparative Philology: Sayce

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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 12:04:23
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Principles of Comparative Philology: Sayce

 


Title: The Principles of Comparative Philology 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/historical-linguistics/principles-comparative-philology?format=PB 


Author: Archibald Henry Sayce

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108082280 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 39.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108082280 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108082280 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

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. This 1874 work, based on a series of lectures, discusses the relatively
new science of comparative philology, its disciplines and its relationship to
physiology, history, and religion. The work describes the ways in which the
laws of language, and especially of language change and development, can be
hypothesised and tested. Sayce also considers, and takes issue with, the
notion of 'the metaphysics of language', and examines the significance of
comparative philology to the study of comparative religion and mythology. The
final chapter deals with the specific issue of analogy in language
development, in particular in relation to changes in pronunciation and
word-stress.
   
   
Preface; 1. The sphere of comparative philology, and its relation to the other
sciences; 2. The idola of glottology; 3. The idolum of primeval centres of
language; 4. The theory of three stages of development; 5. The possibility of
mixture; 6. The doctrine of roots; 7. The metaphysics of language; 8.
Comparative mythology and the science of religions; 9. The influence of
analogy in language; Index.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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