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There is another kind of studies which distinguished from the sometimes opposed to comparative grammar. It is known under the name of general or phil… - Michel Bréal
" "There is another kind of studies which distinguished from the sometimes opposed to comparative grammar. It is known under the name of general or philosophical grammar , whose principles and observations were articulated by Port Royal and which deals with the relation of the form of language to the operations of the mind.
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About Michel Bréal
Michel Jules Alfred Bréal (March 26, 1832 – Nov. 25, 1915) was a French philologist, and Professor of Comparative Grammar at the , who is one of the founders of modern semantics.
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Michel Jules Alfred Bréal
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In that second part we propose to investigate how it happens that words, once created and endowed with a certain meaning, extend that meaning or contract it, transfer it from one group of notions on to another, raise its value or lower it, in a word — bring about changes. It is this second part that constitutes semantics, i.e. science of meaning.
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