Introduction to the study of language : a critical survey of the history and methods of comparative philology of Indo-European languages / Berthold Delbrueck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delbrück, Berthold, 1842-1922.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Amsterdam classics in linguistics, 1800-1925 ; Series I, v. 8.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 1, Amsterdam classics in linguistics, 1800-1925 ; v. 8

Standardized Title:

Einleitung in das sprachstudien. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indo-European languages--Grammar, Comparative.

Indo-European languages.

Comparative linguistics.

Linguistics--History--19th century.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

New ed. / prepared with a foreword and a selected bibliography by E.F.K. Koerner.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1974.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.; CHAPTER II. BOPP'S CONTEMPORARIES AND SUCCESSORS DOWN TO AUGUST SCHLEICHER.; CHAPTER III. AUGUST SCHLEICHER.; CHAPTER IV. NEW ENDEAVORS.; CHAPTER V. THE AGGLUTINATION THEORY.; CHAPTER VI. PHONETIC LAWS.; CHAPTER VII. THE SEPARATION OF THE RACES.; INDEX.; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Translation of Einleitung in das sprachstudium.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-31463-0

9786613314635

90-272-8162-9

OCLC:

756484613