Opuscula

About this eBook

Author

Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon), 1812-1888

Title

Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical

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Produced by Colin Bell, Simon Gardner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

P: Language and Literatures

Subject

Dutch language -- Dialects -- Bibliography

Category

Text

eBook-No.

48079

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48079

Release Date

January 25, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's Notes — OPUSCULA. ESSAYS CHIEFLY PHILOLOGICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.I. PÆDEUTICA. — INAUGURAL LECTURE — NOTES. — Note 1, p. 6. l. 24. — Note 2, p. 7. l. 22. — Note 3, p. 8, l. 27. — INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, — ON THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AS A BRANCH OF EDUCATION.
4. 4.II. LOGICA. — ON THE WORD DISTRIBUTED , AS USED IN LOGIC.
5. 5.III. GRAMMATICA. — ON THE RECIPROCAL PRONOUNS, AND ON THE RECIPROCAL POWER OF THE REFLECTIVE VERB. — ON THE CONNEXION BETWEEN THE IDEAS OF ASSOCIATION AND PLURALITY AS AN INFLUENCE IN THE EVOLUTION OF INFLECTION. — ON THE WORD CUJUM . — ON THE AORISTS IN -KA.
6. 6.IV. METRICA. — ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE CAESURA IN THE GREEK SENARIUS. — REMARKS ON THE USE OF THE SIGNS OF ACCENT AND QUANTITY AS GUIDES TO THE PRONUNCIATION OF WORDS DERIVED FROM THE CLASSICAL LANGUAGES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL TERMS.
7. 7.V. CHRONOLOGICA. — ON THE MEANING OF THE WORD ΣΑΡΟΣ .
8. 8.VI. BIBLIOGRAPHICA. — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF THE WORKS ON THE PROVINCIALISMS OF HOLLAND FROM PAPERS BY VAN DEN BERGH AND HETTEMA IN THE TAALKUNDIG MAGAZIJN .
9. 9.VII. GEOGRAPHICA. — ON THE EXISTENCE OF A NATION BEARING THE NAME OF SERES OR A COUNTRY CALLED SERICA OR TERRA SERICA . — ON THE EVIDENCE OF A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CIMBRI AND THE CHERSONESUS CIMBRICA. — ADDENDA. — ON THE ORIGINAL EXTENT OF THE SLAVONIC AREA. — ADDENDA (1859). — ON THE ORIGINAL EXTENT OF THE SLAVONIC AREA. — ADDENDA (1859). — ON THE TERMS OF GOTHI AND GETÆ . — ON THE JAPODES AND GEPIDÆ
10. 10.VIII. ETHNOLOGICA. — ON THE SUBJECTIVITY OF CERTAIN CLASSES IN ETHNOLOGY. — GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PHILOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION AND THE VALUE OF GROUPS, — TRACES OF A BILINGUAL TOWN IN ENGLAND. — ON THE ETHNOLOGICAL POSITION OF CERTAIN TRIBES ON THE GARROW HILLS. — NOTE (1859). — ON THE TRANSITION BETWEEN THE TIBETAN AND INDIAN FAMILIES IN RESPECT TO CONFORMATION. — NOTE (1859). — ON THE AFFINITIES OF THE LANGUAGES OF CAUCASUS WITH THE MONOSYLLABIC LANGUAGES. — ADDENDA (1859). — ON THE TUSHI LANGUAGE. — ON THE NAME AND NATION OF THE DACIAN KING DECEBALUS, WITH NOTICES OF THE AGATHYRSI AND ALANI. — NOTES. — ON THE LANGUAGE OF LANCASHIRE, UNDER THE ROMANS.
11. 11.KELÆNONESIA. — ON THE NEGRITO LANGUAGES. — ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA (1859). — ON THE GENERAL AFFINITIES OF THE LANGUAGES OF THE OCEANIC BLACKS. — APPENDIX TO JUKES'S VOYAGE OF HMS FLY. 1847. — ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA (1859). — REMARKS ON THE VOCABULARIES OF THE VOYAGE OF THE RATTLESNAKE. — NOTES AND ADDENDA. — ON A ZAZA VOCABULARY. — ON THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS AND NUMERALS OF THE MALLICOLLO AND ERROMANGO LANGUAGES. — Mallicolo or Sesok? — Erromango. — REMARKS.
12. 12.AMERICA (NORTH). — ON THE LANGUAGES OF THE OREGON TERRITORY. — NOTES. — ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF RUSSIAN AMERICA. — MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA. — ON A SHORT VOCABULARY OF THE LOUCHEUX LANGUAGE. — NOTES. — ON THE LANGUAGES OF NEW CALIFORNIA. — ADDENDUM.—(Oct. 14, 1853.) — ON CERTAIN ADDITIONS TO THE ETHNOGRAPHICAL PHILOLOGY OF CENTRAL AMERICA, WITH REMARKS UPON THE SO-CALLED ASTEK CONQUEST OF MEXICO. — NOTE (1859). — NOTE UPON A PAPER OF THE HONOURABLE CAPTAIN FITZROY'S ON THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA, — NOTE. — ON THE LANGUAGES OF NORTHERN, WESTERN, AND CENTRAL AMERICA. — ADDENDA.
13. 13.ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA
14. 14.CONTENTS. — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's Notes

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