 | 1819 - 552 pages
...the greatest order, method, and regularity prevail. ' 2. That these complicated forms, which I call polysynthetic, appear to exist in all those languages,...ancient and modern languages of the old hemisphere. ' FIRST QUESTION. ' General Character of the Indian Languages. — To fix the general character of... | |
 | American Philosophical Society. Historical & Literary Committee - Delaware Indians - 1819 - 534 pages
...which I call poly synthetie, appear to exist in all those languages, from Greenland to Cape Horn. 5. That these forms appear to differ essentially from...ancient and modern languages of the old hemisphere. In the course of the observations which I shall make upon each of these three propositions or rather... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1819 - 476 pages
...ideas are comprised in the least number of words." Rep. p. xxx. ' 3. That these forms appear to me to differ essentially from those of the ancient and modern languages of the old hemisphere.' We have no doubt, that our readers will be as much astonished as we were ourselves at the results here... | |
 | James Buchanan - Indian mythology - 1824 - 350 pages
...order, method, and regularity prevailed. 2. Tbat these complicated forms, which I call polyHifnthetic, appear to exist in all those languages, from Greenland...ancient and modern languages of the old hemisphere. In the course of the observations which I shall make upon each of these three propositions or rather... | |
 | James Buchanan - Indians of North America - 1824 - 404 pages
...order, method, and regularity prevail. 2. That these complicated forms, which I call poly synthetic, appear to exist in all those languages, from Greenland...ancient and modern languages of the old hemisphere. In the course of the observations which I shall make upon each of these three propositions or rather... | |
 | James Buchanan - Indian mythology - 1824 - 164 pages
...method, and regularity prevailed. E 2 2. That these complicated forms, which I call polyffynthetic, appear to exist in all those languages, from Greenland...ancient and modern languages of the old hemisphere. In the course of the observations which I shall make upon each of these three propositions or rather... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1836 - 618 pages
...brother, and the elder sister, as distinguished from the younger ones ; paternal, or maternal uncle, SEC. But what is remarkable, as a feature common to all,...languages. All the information, connected with the first proposition, which could be obtained, has been collected, and will be found in a condensed form... | |
 | Benjamin Drake - Shawnee Indians - 1841 - 252 pages
...order, method and regularity prevail 2. " That these complicated forms, which I call poly synthetic, appear to exist in all those languages, from Greenland...ancient and modern languages of the old hemisphere." In a late learned dissertation * on this subject, it is stated that in nearly the whole territory contained... | |
 | John McIntosh - Indians - 1843 - 332 pages
...called by him Polysynthetic ; appear to exist in all those languages from. Greenland to Cape Horn. 3rd. That these forms appear to differ essentially from...ancient and modern languages of the old hemisphere. PARTICULARITIES OF THE ASIATIC LANGUAGES. Santini, after collating the Indian languages with those... | |
 | 1844 - 778 pages
...has Jed to another enumeration of the leading ]aniniiures nr.,1 *„ . ,-lnssiCape Horn." Thirdly, "That these forms appear to differ essentially from...ancient and modern languages of the old hemisphere." Mr. Gallatin, another highly distinguished philologist, scholar, and author, has, in a dissertation... | |
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That the American languages in general are rich in words and in grammatical forms, and that in their complicated construction, the greatest order, method, and regularity prevail. 2. That these complicated forms, which I call poly synthetic, appear to... 
