Cultivated plants and domesticated animals in their migration from Asia to Europe : historico-linguistic studies

UEber den Umlaut (1843) and UEber den Ablaut (1844) grew out of a review of Grimm's Deutsche Grammatik by Holtzmann, in which he also made an excursus into Bopp's theory of vowel gradation in Sanskrit. Holtzmann was the first to observe the correlation of guna and accent. At the same time he noted that loss (or absence) of the accent could mean loss or shortening of a vowel. Observations which, be it in a different form, eventually found their way into a unified theory of Indo-European vowel gradation. The two German texts are presented here in fac simile format, together with an introductory article.

This volume contains a fac simile edition of the 1882 English translation of Delbruck's Einleitung in das Sprachstudium. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Methodik der vergleichenden Sprachforschung (Leipzig 1880), together with a Foreword and a Selected Bibliography.

• 1. Portrait of Berthold Delbruck
• 2. Foreword to the 1974 Edition
• 3. Author's Preface to the 1880 German Edition
• 4. Author's Preface to the 1882 English Translation
• 5. Translator's Preface
• 6. Table of Contents of "Introduction to the Study of Language"
• 7. Introduction to the Study of Language
• 8. I. Historical Part
• 9. II. Theoretical Part
• 10. Index of Names and Subjects
• 11. Selected Bibliography