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050		4	_aP105 _b.W55 2013
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100	1		_aWhitney, William Dwight, _d1827-1894, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Life and Growth of Language / _cWilliam Dwight Whitney.
246	3		_aThe Life & Growth of Language
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (vii, 326 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge library collection. Linguistics
500			_aReprint. First published in 1875 by Henry S. King & Co. This digitally printed version, 2013.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aWilliam Dwight Whitney (1827-94) was the foremost American philologist and Sanskrit scholar of the nineteenth century. After studying in Germany, then at the forefront of linguistic scholarship, he assumed the chair of Sanskrit at Yale in 1854, with comparative philology added to his professorship in 1869. As well as teaching modern languages, Whitney published over 300 scholarly papers and books, acted as chief editor of the ten-volume Century Dictionary, and co-founded the American Philological Association. In this important 1875 work, the influence of evolutionary theory on other branches of nineteenth-century scholarship, not merely biology, is clear in the discussion of the development of language. Whitney's survey is wide-ranging, beginning with an examination of language acquisition and how language shapes or limits our thought processes. Stressing the scientific basis of historical linguistics, he further looks at how different languages have changed over time, in terms of grammatical form, pronunciation and meaning.
650		0	_aLanguage and languages. _960248
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108062817
830		0	_aCambridge library collection. _pLinguistics.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139856294
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