Lectures on the Science of Language

· 1900

Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Correspondence Member of the Imperial Institute of France. Dedication Preface. Lecture I. The Science Of Language One Of The Physical Sciences. Lecture II. The Growth Of Language In Contradistinction To The History Of Language. Lecture III. The Empirical Stage. Lecture IV. The Classificatory Stage. Lecture V. Genealogical Classification Of Languages. Lecture VI. Comparative Grammar. Lecture VII. The Constituent Elements Of Language. Lecture VIII. Morphological Classification. Lecture IX. The Theoretical Stage, And The Origin Of Language. Appendix. Index. Footnotes…

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