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Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages, showing the original identity of their grammatical structure

By Franz Bopp , Konrad Koerner

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1974
ISBN
9027208743, 9789027208743
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6043515 bytes)
Series
Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800-1925
Edition
2
Pages
107\108
Time added
2014-12-30 14:26:12

Description

The publication in 1816 of Bopp’s Über das Conjugationssystem can be considered the beginning of a systematic comparison of Indo-European languages, and thus as having led too the development of the study of language as a science, distinct from philology. The Analytical Comparison (1820) represents not merely a translation into English, as has been claimed in the literature, but a significant advance in theoretical clarity and methodological soundness. This reprint is accompanied by a bio-bibliographical account of Bopp by J. D. Guigniaut, an introduction to Analytical Comparison by Friedrich Techmer, and a letter to Bopp by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Furthermore, the editor, E. F. K. Koerner, has added a Foreword, select bibliography, and index.

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