Zum Heutigen Stand Der Sprachwissenschaft (cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics) (german Edition)

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. Cover......Page 1 Frontmatter......Page 2 Contents......Page 8 I - SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT UND PHILOLOGIE, EINE AKADEMISCHE AKTRITTSVORLESUNG......Page 10 II - ERWIEDERUNG AUF GEORG CUETIUS' SCHEIFT `ZUR KRITIK DER NEUESTEN SPRACHFORSCHUNG.'......Page 52 1 Die Lautgesetze......Page 56 2 Die Analogic......Page 84 3 Der indogermanische Vocalismus......Page 107 4 Der Ursprung der urindogerman. Wortformen......Page 124 5 Sohlussbemerkungen......Page 133 ANHANG: BEMERKUNGEN ZU JOH. SCHMIDT'S BEURTHEILUNG DER NEUEREN ENTWICKLUNG DER INDOG. SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT......Page 138 Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 Contents 8 I - SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT UND PHILOLOGIE, EINE AKADEMISCHE AKTRITTSVORLESUNG 10 II - ERWIEDERUNG AUF GEORG CUETIUS' SCHEIFT `ZUR KRITIK DER NEUESTEN SPRACHFORSCHUNG.' 52 1 Die Lautgesetze 56 2 Die Analogic 84 3 Der indogermanische Vocalismus 107 4 Der Ursprung der urindogerman. Wortformen 124 5 Sohlussbemerkungen 133 ANHANG: BEMERKUNGEN ZU JOH. SCHMIDT'S BEURTHEILUNG DER NEUEREN ENTWICKLUNG DER INDOG. SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT 138 9781108006934 Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) was a central figure in the circle of Neogrammarians who rejected a prescriptive approach to the study of language. This book, published in 1885 just before his celebrated comparative grammar, gives an overview of the state of Indo-European philology in the late nineteenth century.