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Title: Lectures on The Science of Language

Author: Max Mueller

Release Date: June 17, 2010 [Ebook #32856]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE***

Lectures on

The Science of Language

Delivered At The

Royal Institution of Great Britain

In

April, May, and June, 1861.

By Max Mueller, M. A.

Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Correspondence Member of the Imperial
Institute of France.

From the Second London Edition, Revised.

New York:

Charles Scribner, 124 Grand Street.

1862

CONTENTS

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

DEDICATION

Dedicated

To

The Members Of The University Of Oxford,

Both Resident And Non-Resident,

To Whom I Am Indebted

For Numerous Proofs Of Sympathy And Kindness

During The Last Twelve Years,

In Grateful Acknowledgment Of Their Generous Support

On The

7th Of December, 1860.

PREFACE.

My Lectures on the Science of Language are here printed as I had prepared
them in manuscript for the Royal Institution. When I came to deliver them,
a considerable portion of what I had written had to be omitted; and, in
now placing them before the public in a more complete form, I have