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Zum heutigen Stand der Sprachwissenschaft
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Zum heutigen Stand der Sprachwissenschaft
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Karl Brugmann
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Series | Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:156 | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140 |
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Category/Genre | linguistics |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781108006934
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
26 November 2009 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
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