An Essay on the Origin of Language
by F. W. Farrar
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About this eBook
- Author
- Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903
- Title
- An essay on the origin of language, based on modern researches, and especially on the works of M. Renan
- Credits
- Produced by Turgut Dincer, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- P: Language and Literatures
- Subject
- Language and languages
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 62598
- Release Date
- July 10, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.AN ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE,
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.
- 5.CHAPTER II. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA OF SPEECH.
- 6.CHAPTER III. THE LAWS OF SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE, OR THE CREATION OF ROOTS.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. ONOMATOPŒIA. [103]
- 8.CHAPTER V. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROOTS.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. METAPHOR.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. WORDS NOTHING IN THEMSELVES.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. THE LAWS OF PROGRESS IN LANGUAGE.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. THE FAMILIES OF LANGUAGES.
- 13.CHAPTER X. ARE THERE ANY PROOFS OF A SINGLE PRIMITIVE LANGUAGE?
- 14.CHAPTER XI. THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE.
- 15.APPENDIX.
- 16.FOOTNOTES:
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