| Lemma | usage of language |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Bopp (1820) |
| Titolo | Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages, shewing the original identity of their grammatical structure |
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| Citazioni | […] as language is incapable of expressing all qualities, even of material things, by one word; being obliged to indicate one quality only; how could it be constantly possible fully to convey the finer shades of modal and temporal meaning? And if languages here likewise bend to the necessity of sometimes expressing a part, how can the philologist always determine with certainty, what part is expressed, and what supplied by the usage of language? […] the usage of language is despotic, arbitrarily employing its means, without control. The Sanskrit language is in general much more regular than the Greek, and particularly the change of vowels is entirely founded in nature, there is no arbitrary usage of language. |