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Excerpt from A Historical French GrammarBut' this increase in use led to a weakening of their emphasis, and pronouns which were originally accented gradually became atonic. In the 12th century we see nominatives of personal pronouns for the first time used in this new way. It required four centuries for this use to become finally established in the language. At the end of the 16th century the revolution was complete: the three persons were the...

Excerpt from A Historical French Grammar, Vol. 2: Morphology, or the Study of the Grammatical FormsThe Modern language, ' written with a capital, must be taken as a technical expression for French from the 17th century down to our time. Occasionally the French of the 17th century is contrasted, however, in the original with the modern, i. E. Contemporary language, and in this case 'modern' has been written without a capital. In spite of appare...

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Excerpt from The Life of Words as the Symbols of Ideas Let us examine these two processes, not from the logical point of view as grammarians, but from the linguistic standpoint, and let us seek to find the course which the language follows when it uses them. We will first consider the restrictions of meaning in synecdoche. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgott...

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Originally published in 1897. PREFACE: The following passage from the biography of Arsene Darmesteter, prefixed to Volume I of his Reliques Scientifiques, deserves quotation, both on account of its criticism of Emanuel Deutsch's brilliant article on the Talmund, which originally appeared in the quarterly review for October, 1867, and as an illustration of the phenomenon, often noted in the scientific world, that investigators, wholly independe...