Analytical comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic languages, shewing the original identity of their grammatical structure

Author(s)

• Bopp, Franz
• Guigniaut, Joseph-Daniel
• Koerner, E. F. K.

Bibliographic Information

Analytical comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic languages, shewing the original identity of their grammatical structure

Franz Bopp

（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series 1 . Amsterdam classics in linguistics, 1800-1925 ; v. 3）

J. Benjamins, 1974

Newly edited, together with a bio-bibliographical account of Bopp by Joseph Daniel Guigniaut, an introduction to Analytical comparison by Friedrich Techmer, and a letter to Bopp by William von Humboldt / by E.F.K. Koerner ; with a new preface and an index of authors

• : [pbk.]
• : [hard]

Note

English, French, and German

Bibliography: p. [xii]-xiv

Includes index

Second printing 1989: / by Konrad Koerner ; with a new foreword, a select bibliography, and an index of authors

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: [hard] 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.

Volume

: [pbk.] ISBN 9789027208743

Description

The publication in 1816 of Bopp's UEber 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.

Table of Contents

• 1. Preface to the 1974 edition
• 2. Foreword to the 1989 printing
• 3. Select Bibliography
• 4. A. Works by Bopp
• 5. Secondary Sources
• 6. Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de M. Francois Bopp (1877[1869]) (by Guigniaut, Joseph Daniel)
• 7. Vorwort des Herausgebers (1889) (by Techmer, Friedrich)
• 8. Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages, shewing the original identity of their grammatical structure (1820) (by Bopp, Franz)
• 9. Brief an Franz Bopp uber 'Analytical Comparison' (1821) (by Humboldt, Wilhelm von)
• 10. Index of Authors

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Details

• NCID: BA19996779
• ISBN:
  • 9027208743
  • 9027208719
• LCCN: 75310688
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engfreger
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: xxxviii, 68 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P649
  • DC : 415
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Indo-European languages -- Verb
  • LCSH : Indo-European languages -- Grammar, Comparative
  • LCSH : Bopp, Franz, 1791-1867
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0036280X