How To Use Philology In A Sentence

  • The main linguistic tool employed for reconstructing languages is the comparative method or comparative philology, first developed by Sir William Jones, an Englishman living in India.
  • Currently, linguists generally prefer the synchronic study of spoken language to the diachronic comparison of words in texts, and have tended to regard philology as pre-scientific.
  • The highly flexible nature of the studia humanitatis encouraged the study of a variety of new disciplines, such as classical philology, literature, history, and moral philosophy.
  • It is not that I cannot write to you; should you doubt it, take the following fragment, which was intended for you some time ago, and be convinced that I can antithesize sentiment, and circumvolute periods, as well as any coiner of phrase in the regions of philology. The Letters of Robert Burns
  • Margaret Kunkle, Oct. 4, 1923; specialist in dermatology and syphilology, Greensburg, 1920 -; capt.med. corps U.S. A. 1917-19; attached to British army; Presbyterian. Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
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  • The relationship between reading, understanding and the construction of consciousness has been extensively studied in philology and in hermeneutic and phenomenological philosophy, which Manguel does not discuss.
  • Indeed, I think law and philology are closely related disciplines and law could learn a lot more from philology (and American legalese is interesting to me as an amateur philologist for a rather unusual reason*). The Volokh Conspiracy » Debating Textualism
  • One principle of editing arises from the rich tradition of textual criticism in philology.
  • Currently, linguists generally prefer the synchronic study of spoken language to the diachronic comparison of words in texts, and have tended to regard philology as pre-scientific.
  • Both a study in philology and a history of ideas, The American Language continued in the tradition of Webster and Whitman to defend American English against its detractors.
  • He wished to put literary study, which then passed by the name philology, upon a rigorous scientific footing. Influence
  • Jones argued that one could compare cognate terms and infer a historical relationship between languages and this has become the foundation of modern philology.
  • In philology a hapax legomenon is almost always a word and is a problem because a single usage doesn't generally give us enough information to figure out what it means.
  • Having mastered Sanskrit, he translated parts of Indian classics including the scriptures (the Veda) and laid the foundations for comparative philology.
  • These I have met in what appeared to me to be the most practical way in the case of the Inca (or Quichua, which is the Ecuadorian equivalent) and Jívaro words, which I have introduced for the sake of those who are interested in philology. Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure
  • Biography, bibliography and philology wait in attendance on literary appreciation; these four together cover the whole field of literary research.
  • Ramses had come back from Germany, where he had been studying Egyptian philology with Professor Erman, for that. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
  • Biography, bibliography and philology wait in attendance on literary appreciation; these four together cover the whole field of literary research.
  • To appreciate the subtleties of these exchanges the historian needs patience, an open mind and a mastery of disciplines that range from traditional philology to cutting-edge ethnohistory.
  • Ramses had come back from Germany, where he had been studying Egyptian philology with Professor Erman, for that. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
  • The progress of his pupil so much pleased the old priest that "after six months 'tuition, the master would sometimes, on his occasional absences to teach in the country, request his so forward pupil to attend for him his home scholars." {21c} It was M. D'Eterville who uttered the second recorded prophecy concerning George Borrow: "Vous serez un jour un grand philologue, mon cher," he remarked, and heard that his pupil nourished aspirations towards other things than mere philology. The Life of George Borrow
  • But Nietzsche's motive in opting for classical philology, when he finally did so, was not simple.
  • a number of foxes a "skulk" are mysteries of philology into which I will not enter. Amusements in Mathematics
  • As a student of Latin, Greek and Hebrew grammar and philology, Calvin would have known that it is very difficult to understand any given text with clarity, and would have doubted our ability to ascertain the truth with certainty.
  • I tend to think that only people doing stemmatics and philology get it right because no claim to the "right" reading can be confirmed or rejected. Butterflies and Wheels » Latest News
  • Very enthusiastic, I remember they said you were, on certain abstruse points in comparative philology. The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
  • This moment in philology was brought to you by the late J.R.R. Tolkein. gringro EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Do NOT buy the Chinese Elmo
  • Using his humanist skills in rhetoric, philosophy, and philology, he demonstrated that its historical anachronisms, philological errors, and contradictions in logic revealed that the Donation was an 8th-century forgery.
  • Biography, bibliography and philology wait in attendance on literary appreciation; these four together cover the whole field of literary research.
  • The discussion over at The One Ring, then, seems to be less about the idea of philology, but more about the potential suggestion that those without training in philology should sit down, shut up, and listen to the Annointed Priests of Philology and Literature. Archive 2005-11-01
  • Historical interpretation of medieval English documents and records requires a reading knowledge of Latin and French and training in philology, paleography, and diplomatics, as well as in history.
  • How would you characterize his early interest in philology? The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester: Questions
  • [Footnote: If a student of philology were allowed to touch on such high matters as legislation, I would moralize on the word kiddle, meaning an illegal kind of weir used for fish-poaching, whence perhaps the surname The Romance of Names
  • He has also published two series of charming lectures on English philology, entitled _The Study of Words_ and _English Past and Present_. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
  • ↑ The term Zoroastrianism was first attested by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1874 in Archibald Sayce's Principles of Comparative Philology Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • In philology, our Sanskrit language is now universally acknowledged to be the foundation of all European languages, which, in fact, are nothing but jargonized Sanskrit.
  • It is not that I cannot write to you; should you doubt it, take the following fragment, which was intended for you some time ago, and be convinced that I can antithesize sentiment, and circumvolute periods, as well as any coiner of phrase in the regions of philology. The Letters of Robert Burns
  • After World War II, when I was working on a major in philology at Moscow State University, I chose to study American literature and to analyze the problem of "Jack London as a novelist. A Letter From Leading Jack London Scholar in Russia Vil M. Bykov
  • I had taken three years of Russian at Dartmouth and then I got a graduate fellowship in Russian philology at the University of Edinburgh. The End of the Line: The Failure of Communism in the Soviet Union and China
  • This view of language brings philology to life for Julia; she suddenly sees its object as the product of individual creativity.
  • One day a fellow-student, who pleased himself with what he called philology, remarked that his father must have been a hit of a humorist to name him Peregrine: -- "except indeed it be a family name!" he added. What's Mine's Mine — Complete
  • The typical university had four faculties, of which the largest was Law and the smallest History / Philology; the other two were Medicine and Physics / Mathematics.
  • But that would be to stray into fields of etymology and philology.
  • He became an instructor in the Medical Department of this University in 1919, and became successively assistant professor, associate professor and finally professor of dermatology and syphilology in 1934, and founded the Board of Visitors minutes
  • Rhys's linguistic speculations may now be largely out-dated, but the Lectures on Welsh Philology helped put the study of philology, in particular the philology of the Welsh language, on a secure academic basis.
  • These particular notes filled me with a desire for etymology and philology, but also a desire for the worlds of the other old languages mentioned, the mythology harbored in the consciousness tinged (tinge is weak) by that medium. A Note on the Notes « Unknowing
  • The German-inspired academic study of philology was coming into fashion and influenced language observation methods in Africa.
  • _circumvolute_ periods, as well as any coiner of phrase in the regions of philology. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
  • Using a multichanneled approach combining linguistics, philology, paleontology, archaeology and ethnobiology, de Candolle was able to ascertain where the greatest variation in a species was found. The Fruit Hunters
  • In literary studies that position texts in the context of intellectual history,, we find a large body of work that extends the long line of cultural criticism that has its roots in philology and history-of-ideas scholarship.
  • Probably, during these years, he began studying the philology of the Polish language at Warsaw University.
  • The History of Language is a necessarily condensed account, aimed at the general reader, of the principles that underlie comparative philology.
  • Ramses had come back from Germany, where he had been studying Egyptian philology with Professor Erman, for that. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
  • Historical interpretation of medieval English documents and records requires a reading knowledge of Latin and French and training in philology, paleography, and diplomatics, as well as in history.
  • His major interests and main scholarship were on philology.
  • Poetry and its handmaidens, philology, the study of language history, of grammar, all of those disciplines are the great disciplines of that culture at that period of time in particular.
  • Jutta Dick has degrees in German philology, history and philosophy. Jutta Dick.
  • Ramses had come back from Germany, where he had been studying Egyptian philology with Professor Erman, for that. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY

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