PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOCJY IN 1889. 009 



language, M. Eeguaud, from purely natural reasons, does not bold to 

 the possibility of a universal language. 



To follow niinutely the literature of comparative language, no better 

 guide can be found than Techmer's Internationale Zeitschrift fur Allge- 

 meiue Sprachwissenschaft, founded in Leipzig in 188i, and now pub- 

 lished in Heilbronn. The editor commences in the tirst number of vol. IV, 

 issued in 1888, and completes in the second nunibei", issued in 1889, a 

 bibliography of language publications in 1886. The first ten pages are 

 devoted to journals and periodicals, with their contents. A liberal 

 definition is allowed to the word language, so as to include papers on 

 general ethnology. Then follow 103 i)ages of titles with elaborate digest 

 in fine print, one of the most exhaustive helps to the general student. 

 To leave no stone unturned for the reader's convenience, Dr. Techmer 

 furnishes at the close a syllabus of the entire catalogue, and with each 

 catch-word the name of the authors who have written on that subject 

 and the page where his title and review may be found. Would space 

 permit, the whole syllabus should be here re-produced, but the classifi- 

 cation without the names here printed will show the magnitude of the 

 scheme : 



Science of language in general. History of the science of language. 



I. Natural history and language: Eelatiou of this study to anthro- 

 pology. (1) Acoustic methods of expression, including phonetics, 

 anatomy, storing of language, rhythm, metric; (2) optical and other 

 modes of expression ; (3) present condition of acoustic and optical ex- 

 pression, phonetic writing, sound writing, shorthand, orthoepy and 

 orthography, principals of transcription, universal speech, deaf-mute 

 language. 



II. Psychological side of language study: (1) Relations to psychics ; 

 (2) roots ; (3) suffixes, afiixes ; (4) words ; (5) seniiology and change of 

 meaning; (0) analogy; (7) etymology ; (8) psychological subject and 

 predicate. 



III. Historical side of language study: (1) Phylogenetic develop- 

 ment of speech ; (2) origin and prehistoric development ; (3) relations 

 to mythology ; (1) relation to the science of religion ; (5) relation to 

 ethnography; {(>) relation to aesthetics; (7) historic development; 

 (8) science of language and i>hiiology ; (9) paleography ; (10) conflict 

 of languages ; (11) grammar in relation to logic and psychology. 



IV. Glossography, or the study of special languages : {a) languages 

 not Semitic or Indo-gerrnanic in Africa, America, Asia, Europe; {b) 

 Semitic languages; (c) Indogermanic languages: Indie, Iranic, Greek, 

 Latin, and its derivatives, Keltic, Slavic, Lithuanic, Germanic, Scandi- 

 navic, English, Hollandic. Ontologic development of a language. 



In 1888 Li. de la Grasserie, of Ilennes, published a work on the divis- 

 ions of linguistic study (Divisions de la Linguistique, Maissonneuve 

 et Ch. Leclerc (1888) Paris), in Avhich he considers the subject under 

 three heads: (1) The study of each language separately; (2) the com- 

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