Sentence examples for knowledge of philology from inspiring English sources

Its many worlds and creatures were drawn from Tolkien's extensive knowledge of philology and folklore.

The author's scholarly knowledge of Germanic philology and interest in fairy tales are often noted as influences.

As Vico says, "philosophy contemplates reason, whence comes knowledge of the true; philology observes that of which human choice is author, whence comes consciousness of the certain" (Element X, §138, p.63).

A direct translation to Spanish, with minor changes from the English variant, was accomplished by two Spanish-born bilingual professionals, one a Spanish philology graduate with extensive knowledge of English, and the second a neuropsychologist with expertise in the scale contents.

His etymologies reflect the state of philology in his age.

"It's more a point of philology, linguistics.

Professor Anna Davies, of Somerville College Oxford, an internationally respected scholar of philology and linguistics, is made a dame.

old, a Dr. of Philology and a former professor of history and Chinese literature at the Univ. of Leningrad.

To young people of the current generation the very idea of philology suggests something impossibly antiquarian and musty, but philology in fact is the most basic and creative of the interpretive arts.

Richardson was a disciple of the benighted John Horne Tooke, whose 18th-century theories long held back the development of philology in England.

HAD he not opted for the navy, a course his father suggested for him, Emilio Massera might have become a professor of philology.