| Zum heutigen Stand der Sprachwissenschaft Contributor(s): Brugmann, Karl (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108006930 ISBN-13: 9781108006934 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: German Published: November 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection: Linguistics (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.45 lbs) 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
