Transcriber’s Note
A number of typographical errors have been maintained in this version of this book. They are marked and the corrected text is shown in the popup. A description of the errors is found in the [list] at the end of the text.
The following codes for less common characters were used:
- ā a with macron
- ū u with macron
- † dagger
- ‡ double dagger
- ‖ double vertical line
THE
PHILOSOPHIC GRAMMAR
—OF—
American Languages,
As Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt;
WITH THE TRANSLATION OF AN UNPUBLISHED MEMOIR BY
HIM ON THE AMERICAN VERB.
—BY—
DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D.,
Professor of Ethnology and Archæology at the Academy of Natural Sciences,
Philadelphia.
President of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia; Member of the
American Philosophical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, the Pennsylvania
Historical Society, etc.; Membre de la Société Royale des Antiquaires
du Nord; de la Société Américaine de France; Délégué
Général de l’Institution Ethnographique; Vice-Président
du Congrès International des Américanistes; Corresponding
Member of the Anthropological
Society of Washington, etc.
(Read before the American Philosophical Society, March 20, 1885.)
PHILADELPHIA:
Press of McCalla & Stavely, 237-9 Dock Street.
1885.