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Language, its nature, development, and origin

Kind
Book
Date
1922
Retrieved
Jun 6, 2012
ISBN
z7NFAQAAIA

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Language is All About Classification

Man is a classifying animal: in one sense it may be said that the whole process of speaking is nothing but distributing phenomena, of which no two are alike in every respect, into different classes on the strength of perceived similarities and dissimilarities. In the name-giving process we witness the same…