Introduction to the Study of Language: A Critical Survey of the History and Methods of Comparative Philology of the Indo-European LanguagesFB & Limited, 1882 - 142 pages Excerpt from Introduction to the Study of Language: A Critical Survey of the History and Methods of Comparative Philology of the Indo-European Languages The character of the present work is mainly determined by the circumstance that it is intended by the author to facili tate the study of the Grammars which breitkopf hartel are publishing, as well as the comprehension of comparative philology in its newest form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... BOPP has always been of slight account , and is very trifling at present . In limiting myself to the departments of phonetics and ... BOPP's time to the present is roughly sketched , with the especial aim of showing clearly how the problems.
... instead of to JOLLY'S Ger- man translation , and similarly , the extracts from BOPP's Ana- lytical Comparison appear in their original English form , as well as the remarks of Sir WILLIAM JONES on page TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE . XI.
... BOPP , pages 1-26 . 1. Bopp's views of the origin of inflection , 3-16 . Bopp at first follows FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL . Theory of the latter , 3-5 . Bopp's theory in its first form , 5-9 . Bopp's theory in its second form , 9—12 . The third ...
... Bopp's theory supported by the analogy of other languages , 71-73 . Thus the agglutination theory is recommended in ... BOPP . When FRANZ BOPP ( born XIV CONTENTS .
... BOPP's genius , but it is quite as certain that Bopp himself from the very begin- ning had in view not the comparison , but the explanation of forms , and that comparison was to him only a means to the attainment of this chief end . To ...
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism Tullio De Mauro,Lia Formigari No preview available - 1990 |