Table of contents:
- Editor's Foreword
- Portrait of Holger Pedersen
- Introduction
- Holger Pedersen
- A Glance at the History of Linguistics, with Particular Regard to the Historical Study of Phonology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Pre-19th-century Etymology
- 3. The Beginnings of Comparative Linguistics
- 4. The Significance of Printing for Linguistics
- 5. The 18th Century: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 6. Linguistic Comparison: Sámuel Gyarmathi; Rasmus Rask
- 7. Early 19th-Century Linguistic Comparison
- 8. The Acquaintance with Sanskrit
- 9. Bopp's Position in the History of Linguistics
- 10. Phonological Treatment in Bopp and Grimm
- 11. Rask's Significance in Phonological Study
- 12. Grimm Subsequent to Rask's Influence
- 13. August Friedrich Pott
- 14. Georg Curtius and August Schleicher
- 15. Linguistic Discoveries of the 1870s
- 16. Wilhelm Scherer
- 17. Methodological Discussions of the 1870s and 1880s
- 18. Tasks for the Future
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Authors
- Editor's Foreword
- Portrait of Holger Pedersen
- Introduction
- Holger Pedersen
- A Glance at the History of Linguistics, with Particular Regard to the Historical Study of Phonology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Pre-19th-century Etymology
- 3. The Beginnings of Comparative Linguistics
- 4. The Significance of Printing for Linguistics
- 5. The 18th Century: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 6. Linguistic Comparison: Sámuel Gyarmathi; Rasmus Rask
- 7. Early 19th-Century Linguistic Comparison
- 8. The Acquaintance with Sanskrit
- 9. Bopp's Position in the History of Linguistics
- 10. Phonological Treatment in Bopp and Grimm
- 11. Rask's Significance in Phonological Study
- 12. Grimm Subsequent to Rask's Influence
- 13. August Friedrich Pott
- 14. Georg Curtius and August Schleicher
- 15. Linguistic Discoveries of the 1870s
- 16. Wilhelm Scherer
- 17. Methodological Discussions of the 1870s and 1880s
- 18. Tasks for the Future
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Authors