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Zum heutigen Stand der Sprachwissenschaft

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Zum heutigen Stand der Sprachwissenschaft
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Karl Brugmann
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:156
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/Genrelinguistics
ISBN/Barcode 9781108006934
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 26 November 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) was one of the central figures in the circle of Neogrammarians who rejected a prescriptive approach to the study of language in favour of diachronic study. This short overview of the development of comparative Indo-European linguistics and philology in the second part of the nineteenth century was first published in 1885, the year before Brugmann's celebrated multi-volume comparative grammar of Indo-European began to appear. To Brugmann, language is not an autonomous organism that develops according to inherent laws. It exists only in the individual speaker, and every change in a language takes place because of the speaker, though speakers share similar psychological and physical processes. Traditional philologists, including Brugmann's former university teacher Georg Curtius (1820-1885), were extremely hostile to the Neogrammarians' approach. Here, Brugmann responds to Curtius' criticism and defends his research methodology and theories.