-h-30.htm.html#flexion" class="pginternal">flexion, suffix English, Grimm’s appreciation, linguistics, position of, 64 f., 73, 86, 97 little, 407 little language, 103, 106, 144, 147 living languages, study of, 97 loan-words, sound-substitution, 207; general theory, 208; culture, 209; classes, 211; with symbolic sounds, 409 loss of sounds, 108, 168, 328 f. love-songs, 433 f. Luxemburg, bilinguism in, 148 -ly, suffix, 377 m in adversative conjunctions, 314 ff.; case-ending, 382 ma, maar, 314 f. Madvig, 84, 433 magis, mais, 314 f. makeshift languages, 232 ff. mamma, 154 ff. man and woman, 142, 237 ff. Mauritius Creole, 226 ff. meaning, delimitation of, 118 f.; words of opposite meaning, 120; words with several meanings, 121; shifting of meaning, 174; cf. semantic changes meaningless gibberish, 149 f.; singing, 436 Meillet, 55, 198 f. memory, children’s, 143 men, 315 mental states, words for, 401 Meringer, 162 f., 280, 291 metanalysis, 173 metaphors, 431 metathesis, 108, 281 Meyer-Benfey, 256 milk, 158 Misteli, 79 misunderstandings, 282, 286 f., 319 mixed languages, 191 ff. modern languages, study of, 68; compared with ancient, 322 ff. MÖller, H., 347 this and that, 403 Thomson, 90 n., 267, 427 threshold, under the, 138 ti, 358 f. time, a child’s conception of, 120 tone, 111; in Chinese, 369, 370; in Danish dialect, 371; in primitive languages, 419 Tooke, Horne, 49 translation-loans, 215 translators introduce foreign words, 210 tripos, 115 twins having separate language, 185 f. u, French, 192 ff.; English, 290 f. umlaut, 37 understanding, a baby’s, 113 f. units of language, 422 value, influence on phonetic development, 266 ff. verb, substantive, 48; flexional forms, 130; simplification, 332 ff.; concord, 335 verbal character of roots, 374 f. Verner, 93; Verner’s Law, 195, 197 f. vocabulary, extent of, 124 ff.; in primitive speech, 429 voicing of consonants, in Gothonic and English, 198; symbolic, 405 vowel-harmony, 280 vowels, number of Aryan, 44, 52, 91 vulgar speech, 261, 299 wars, influence on language, 260 weak preterit, 51, 381 weakening of words, 266 Wessely, 197 Wheeler, 293 Whitney, 88, 323, 367 Windisch, 208 women as language teachers, 142; women’s language, 237 ff. word, what constitutes one, 125, 422 f. word-division, 132, 173 f. word-formation, 131; cf. Printed in Great Britain by
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