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1E. Meyer,Sitzungsberichte der Berliner Akademie(1908, pp. 14 ff.), and more fully inKuhn’s Zeitschrift(xlii. pp. 17 ff.); alsoGeschichte des Altertums(i. 2, 2nd ed. pp. 807 ff.).2Sieg und Siegling, “Tocharisch, die Sprache der Indoskythen” (Sitzb. d. Berl. Ak.1908, pp. 915 ff.).3No. xix. p. 255, “Another ancient and extensive class of languages, united by a greater number of resemblances than can well be altogether accidental, may be denominated the Indo-European, comprehending the Indian, the West Asiatic, and almost all the European languages.”4Leo Meyer, “Über den Ursprung der Namen Indogermanen, Semiten und Ugrofinner,” in theGöttinger gelehrte Nachrichten, philologisch-historische Klasse, 1901, pp. 454 ff.5The vocative is not strictly speaking a case at all, for it stands outside the syntax of the sentence. It was originally an exclamatory form consisting of the bare stem without case suffix. In the plural the nominative is used to supply the lacking vocative form.6For the history of the controversy see the excellent summary in Salomon Reinach’sL’Origine des Aryens: Historie d’une controverse(1892). Max Müller’s latest views are contained in hisBiographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas(1888). See Schmidt’sDie Urheimat der Indogermanen und das europäische Zahlsystem(1890).7“Geographische Prüfung der Tatsachen über den Ursprung der Völker Europas” (Berichte der k. sächsischen Ges. d. Wissenschaften, 1900, pp. 34 ff.).8See the essay on “Evolution and the Science of Language,” inDarwin and Modern Science(1909), p. 524 f.
1E. Meyer,Sitzungsberichte der Berliner Akademie(1908, pp. 14 ff.), and more fully inKuhn’s Zeitschrift(xlii. pp. 17 ff.); alsoGeschichte des Altertums(i. 2, 2nd ed. pp. 807 ff.).
2Sieg und Siegling, “Tocharisch, die Sprache der Indoskythen” (Sitzb. d. Berl. Ak.1908, pp. 915 ff.).
3No. xix. p. 255, “Another ancient and extensive class of languages, united by a greater number of resemblances than can well be altogether accidental, may be denominated the Indo-European, comprehending the Indian, the West Asiatic, and almost all the European languages.”
4Leo Meyer, “Über den Ursprung der Namen Indogermanen, Semiten und Ugrofinner,” in theGöttinger gelehrte Nachrichten, philologisch-historische Klasse, 1901, pp. 454 ff.
5The vocative is not strictly speaking a case at all, for it stands outside the syntax of the sentence. It was originally an exclamatory form consisting of the bare stem without case suffix. In the plural the nominative is used to supply the lacking vocative form.
6For the history of the controversy see the excellent summary in Salomon Reinach’sL’Origine des Aryens: Historie d’une controverse(1892). Max Müller’s latest views are contained in hisBiographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas(1888). See Schmidt’sDie Urheimat der Indogermanen und das europäische Zahlsystem(1890).
7“Geographische Prüfung der Tatsachen über den Ursprung der Völker Europas” (Berichte der k. sächsischen Ges. d. Wissenschaften, 1900, pp. 34 ff.).
8See the essay on “Evolution and the Science of Language,” inDarwin and Modern Science(1909), p. 524 f.