A grammar of the Icelandic or old Norse tongue
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A grammar of the Icelandic or old Norse tongue
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series I . Amsterdam classics in linguistics,
Benjamins, 1976
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Vejledning til det islandske ... sprog
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Vejledning til det islandske ... sprog
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Reprint of the 1843 ed. published by W. Pickering, London
Bibliography of works by R. K. Rask: p. xxxvii-xliii
Bibliography: p. xliv-lii
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9789027208712
Description
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.
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ISBN 9789027208736
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This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask's Anvising till Islandskan eller Nordiska Fornspraket (1818). This re-edition, with an added bio-bibliography of Rask, should enable the linguist of today to obtain a fairly rounded picture of this important 19th-century scholar who, together with Bopp and Grimm, has justly been ranked among the founding fathers of the comparative-historical study of Indo-European languages.
Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787-1832) did not occupy himself with historical linguistics alone as a comparativist, but also with language as a system based on a notion of structure comprised of three key ideas: the idea of wholeness, the idea of transformation (derivation and composition), and the idea of self-regulation. He formulated theoretical and practical premises for the composition of grammars, and in this he was far ahead of his time and in closer proximity to the linguistic concerns and problems of our era. From both theoretical and pedagogical points of view, Rask's grammar of Icelandic remains a most remarkable work.
Table of Contents
- 1. Foreword
- 2. Preface
- 3. Rasmus Kristian Rask: His life and work
- 4. Select Bibliography of Rask's Works
- 5. Bibliographical References
- 6. A Note on the Translation
- 7. Corrections (in additions to those listed by G. W. Dasent)
- 8. Table of Contents of A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue
- 9. A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue
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