ISBN: 9781153965200

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...admiration of modern scholars; nothing at all approaching it has been produced by any ancient people; it has served as the foundation in no small degree of our own phonetics: even as our science of grammar and of language has borrowed much from India. The treatment of syntax is markedly inferior--though, after all, hardly more than in a measure to correspond with the inferiority of the Sanskrit sentence in point of structure, as compared with the Latin and the Greek. Into any more detailed description it is not necessary to our present purpose to enter; and the matter is one pretty well understood by the students of Indo-European language. It is generally well known also that the Hindu science, after a however long history of elaboration, became fixed for all future time in the system of a single grammarian, named Panini (believed, though on grounds far from convincing, to have lived two or three centuries before the Christian era). Panini''s work has been commented without end, corrected in minor points, condensed, re-cast in arrangement, but never rebelled against or superseded; and it is still the authoritative standard of good Sanskrit. Its form of presentation is of the strangest: a miracle of ingenuity, but of perverse and wasted ingenuity. The only object aimed at in it is brevity, at the sacrifice of everything else--of order, of clearness, of even intelligibility except by the aid of keys and commentaries and lists of words, which then are furnished in profusion. To determine a grammatical point out of it is something like constructing a passage of text out of an index verborum: if you are sure that you have gathered up every word that belongs in the passage, and have put them all in the right order, you have got the right reading; but... Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Books, Reference and Language, American journal of philology Volume 5 Books>Reference and Language, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153965200

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's web… More...

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 5; Original Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 5; Original Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; Publication date: 1884; Subjects: Philology; Classical philology; Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages; History / Ancient / General; History / Ancient / Greece; Juvenile Nonfiction / Language Arts / General; Language Arts Books, Foreign Language Study~~General, American-Journal-of-Philology~~Jstor, 999999999, American Journal Of Philology (Volume 5), Jstor, Basil L. Gildersleeve, 1153965208, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1153965208

Paperback, [EAN: 9781153965200], Unknown, English, English, English, Unknown, Book, Unknown, Unknown, 125071031, General AAS, 275738, Languages, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 40053001… More...

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ISBN: 1153965208

Paperback, [EAN: 9781153965200], Unknown, English, English, English, Unknown, Book, Unknown, Unknown, 125071031, General AAS, 275738, Languages, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 40053001… More...

Paperback, [EAN: 9781153965200], Unknown, English, English, English, Unknown, Book, Unknown, Unknown, 125071031, General AAS, 275738, Languages, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 400530011, English, 400529011, Language (feature_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books, 492564011, Paperback, 492562011, Format (binding_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books, 182018031, Regular Size, 182016031, Font Size (format_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books<

ISBN: 1153965208

Paperback, [EAN: 9781153965200], Unknown, English, English, English, Unknown, Book, Unknown, Unknown, 125071031, General AAS, 275738, Languages, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 40053001… More...

Paperback, [EAN: 9781153965200], Unknown, English, English, English, Unknown, Book, Unknown, Unknown, 125071031, General AAS, 275738, Languages, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books, 400530011, English, 400529011, Language (feature_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books, 492564011, Paperback, 492562011, Format (binding_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books, 182018031, Regular Size, 182016031, Font Size (format_browse-bin), 365481011, Refinements, 266239, Books<