The Beginnings of Morphology
Paul Salmon
Summary By providing an assured basis in morphology for subsequent phonological comparison Sir William Jones’s celebrated remarks about the resemblance and relationship between Sanskrit, Greek Latin marked a turning point study of language. Some scholars anticipated his conclusions, but their findings appear to have remained largely unknown. At much same time as forms languages were beginning be compared, investigations being made greater detail than hitherto into structural resemblances different species plants animals. In biological studies explicit evolutionary statements based on such observations are few far between, language, similarity form implied filiation. The present sets out compare some lines thought common comparative linguistics anatomy, suggest that sciences, too, origin sooner more generally is sometimes held.
Historiographia Linguistica