A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European, Sanskrit, Greek and Latin Languages : Volume 2
Overview
August Schleicher (1821-68) is often credited with being the first scholar to apply a 'family tree' model to language groups. He had published extensively on individual European languages before his groundbreaking comparative Indo-European Compendium (also reissued in this series) appeared in German in 1861-2. The book was derived from his lectures, and was intended to save his students note-taking and copying from the blackboard. Each section begins with his reconstruction of a Proto-Indo-European phonological or morphological feature, and then shows how this is reflected in a range of daughter languages. This abridged English translation, based on the German third edition, appeared in 1874-7. Produced for students of Greek and Latin philology, it focuses on the phonology and morphology of 'the original Indo-European language', Sanskrit, Greek and Latin, omitting Schleicher's extensive discussion of other languages and the comparative paradigms provided in the German edition. Volume 2 covers morphology.
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- ISBN-13: 9781108073714
- ISBN-10: 1108073719
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: September 2014
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.28 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.34 pounds
- Page Count: 116
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