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Evolution of Language

Evolution of Language

by John Wesley Powell

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Author
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Title
On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16
Credits
Produced by Louise Hope, Carlo Traverso, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr)
Language
English
LoC Class
P: Language and Literatures
Subject
Language and languages
Category
Text
eBook-No.
18818
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18818
Release Date
July 13, 2006
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.ON THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE, — J. W. POWELL. — ON THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE, — I.—THE PROCESS BY COMBINATION. — II.—THE PROCESS BY VOCALIC MUTATION. — III.—THE PROCESS BY INTONATION. — IV.—THE PROCESS BY PLACEMENT. — DIFFERENTIATION OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH. — INDEX

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