3. The Beginnings of Comparative Linguistics

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Editor's Foreword V
3. Table of contents vii
4. Portrait of Holger Pedersen VIII
5. Introduction IX
6. Holger Pedersen XXIII
7. A Glance at the History of Linguistics, with Particular Regard to the Historical Study of Phonology
8. 1. Introduction 1
9. 2. Pre-19th-century Etymology 5
10. 3. The Beginnings of Comparative Linguistics 10
11. 4. The Significance of Printing for Linguistics 29
12. 5. The 18th Century: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 32
13. 6. Linguistic Comparison: Sámuel Gyarmathi; Rasmus Rask 34
14. 7. Early 19th-Century Linguistic Comparison 37
15. 8. The Acquaintance with Sanskrit 40
16. 9. Bopp's Position in the History of Linguistics 43
17. 10. Phonological Treatment in Bopp and Grimm 46
18. 11. Rask's Significance in Phonological Study 51
19. 12. Grimm Subsequent to Rask's Influence 55
20. 13. August Friedrich Pott 60
21. 14. Georg Curtius and August Schleicher 63
22. 15. Linguistic Discoveries of the 1870s 67
23. 16. Wilhelm Scherer 74
24. 17. Methodological Discussions of the 1870s and 1880s 77
25. 18. Tasks for the Future 83
26. Notes 85
27. Select Bibliography 91
28. Index of Authors 97