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—BY—
DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D.,
Professor of Ethnology and Archæology at the Academy of Natural Sciences,
Philadelphia.
President of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia; Member of the
American Philosophical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, the Pennsylvania
Historical Society, etc.; Membre de la Société Royale des Antiquaires
du Nord; de la Société Américaine de France; Délégué
Général de l’Institution Ethnographique; Vice-Président
du Congrès International des Américanistes; Corresponding
Member of the Anthropological
Society of Washington, etc.
(Read before the American Philosophical Society, March 20, 1885.)
PHILADELPHIA:
Press of McCalla & Stavely, 237-9 Dock Street.
1885.
The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages.
§1. Introduction, p. 3. §2. Humboldt’s Studies in American Languages,p. 4. §3. The Final Purpose of the Philosophy of Language, p. 7.§4. Historical, Comparative and Philosophic Grammar, p. 9. §5.Definition and Psychological Origin of Language, p. 10. §6.Primitive Roots and Grammatical Categories, p. 11. §7. Formal andMaterial Elements of Language, p. 13. §8. The Development ofLanguages, p. 14. §9. Internal Form of Languages, p. 16. §10.Criteria of Rank in Languages, p. 17. §11. Classification ofLanguages, p. 21. §12. Nature of Incorporation, p. 22. §13.Psychological Origin of Incorporation, p. 24. §14. Effect ofIncorporation on Compound Sentences, p. 25. §15. The Dual inAmerican Languages, p. 27. §16. Humboldt’s Essay on the AmericanVerb, p. 28.