[5] Mémoire sur le Systeme grammatical, &c. p. 155.
[6] Cf. nous and nous autres. The same distinction is found in some American languages. There is a dual in the language of the Greenlanders; but it is not, however, used when a natural duality seems to call for it, but in cases when, though there might have been several things, only two are actually found.
[7] W. von Humboldt, Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues, p. 423 (ed. 1841); Misteli, Typen des Sprachbaues (1893).
[8] Capt. Grey, Vocabulary of the dialects of S. W. Australia, pp. xxi and 104 (1840).
[9] The sharp distinction between the first and second personal pronouns and the third: the want of any apparent connexion in the Indo-Germanic languages between the first and second persons singular and the plural form seems to point in the same direction.
[10] Cf. vol. ii. Notes and Illustrations, p. 400.
[11] Die Sprachwissenschaft, p. 168.
[12] 'Vorstellung,' as distinguished from 'Begriff.'
[13] Thus in Malay, there are about twenty words for strike, according as it is done with thick or thin wood, downwards, horizontally, or upwards, with the hand, with the fist, with the flat hand, with a club, with the sharp edge, with a hammer, &c. (See Misteli, Typen des Sprachbaues, p. 265.)