Introduction to the Study of Language : A critical survey of the history and methods of comparative philology of Indo-European languages (Leipzig, 1882). New edition.
Title:
Introduction to the Study of Language : A critical survey of the history and methods of comparative philology of Indo-European languages (Leipzig, 1882). New edition.
Author:
Delbrück, Berthold.
ISBN:
9789027281623
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (176 pages)
Series:
Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925 ; v.8
Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925
Contents:
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- FOREWORD TO THE 1974 EDITION -- INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE -- PREFACE. -- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION. -- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. FRANZ BOPP. -- I. Bopp's views of the origin of inflection. -- II. Bopp's method of comparing given languages. -- CHAPTER II. BOPP'S CONTEMPORIES AND SUCCESSORS DOWN TO AUGUST SCHLEICHER. -- CHAPTER III. AUGUST SCHLEICHER. -- CHAPTER IV. NEW ENDEAVORS. -- CHAPTER V. THE AGGLUTINATION THEOEY. -- I. ROOTS. -- A. The idea of the root. -- B. The classes of roots. -- C. The form of roots. -- II. THE NOUN. -- A. Stem-forming suffixes. -- B. Case-formation. -- III. THE VERB. -- A. The tense-stems. -- B. The mode-stems. -- C. The personal endings. -- CHAPTER VI. PHONETIC LAWS. -- CHAPTER VII. THE SEPARATION OF THE RACES. -- INDEX. -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Abstract:
This volume contains a fac simile edition of the 1882 English translation of Delbrück's Einleitung in das Sprachstudium. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Methodik der vergleichenden Sprachforschung (Leipzig 1880), together with a Foreword and a Selected Bibliography.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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