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
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 1974
XIX, 148 pages
978-90-272-8162-3 (ISBN)
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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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- 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
