A GLANCE AT THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS WITH PARTICULAR REGARDTO THE HISTORICAL STUDY OF PHONOLOGY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright page -- FOREWORD -- Table of contents -- Portrait of Holger Pedersen -- HOLGER PEDERSEN - A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND WORK -- HOLGER PEDERSEN - A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS -- A GLANCE AT THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO THE HISTORICAL STUDY OF PHONOLOGY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PRE-19TH-CENTURY ETYMOLOGY -- 3. THE BEGINNINGS OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS -- 4. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PRINTING FOR LINGUISTICS -- 5. THE 18TH CENTURY: GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -- 6. LINGUISTIC COMPARISON: SAMUEL GYARMATHI -- RASMUS RASK -- 7. EARLY 19TH-CENTURY LINGUISTIC COMPARISON -- 8. THE ACQUAINTANCE WITH SANSKRIT -- 9. BOPP'S POSITION IN THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS -- 10. PHONOLOGICAL TREATMENTS IN BOPP AND GRIMM -- 11. RASK'S SIGNIFICANCE IN PHONOLOGICAL STUDY -- 12. GRIMM SUBSEQUENT TO RASK'S INFLUENCE -- 13. AUGUST FRIEDRICH POTT -- 14. GEORG CURTIUS AND AUGUST SCHLEICHER -- 15. LINGUISTIC DISCOVERIES OF THE 1870'S -- 16. WILHELM SCHERER -- 17. METHODOLOGICAL DISCUSSIONS OF THE 1870'S AND 1880'S -- 18. TASKS FOR THE FUTURE -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF AUTHORS.