The study of Indo-European vocalism in the 19th century : from the beginnings to Whitney and Scherer : a critical-historical account /

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Author / Creator:	Benware, Wilbur A.
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Benjamins, 1974.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 126 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 3, Studies in the history of linguistics ; v. 3 Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of linguistics ; v. 3.
Subject:	Indo-European languages -- Vowels. Proto-Indo-European language -- Vowels. Linguistics -- History -- 19th century. Indo-European languages -- Vowels. Linguistics. Proto-Indo-European language -- Vowels. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11227100

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ISBN:	9789027281616 9027281610 9027208913 9027208948 9789027208941
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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-121) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	In the 19th century research on the Indo-European languages was to a large degree coterminus with the development of linguistics itself. The most notable accomplishments, as related in every history of linguistics, took place in the area of phonology. The present study examines one aspect of phonological investigation of the Indo-European languages: vocalism from the early 1800's to around 1870, the threshold of the neogrammarian era. It attempts to go beyond a mere chronological presentation of research on vocalism in the 19th century to examine other questions, such as the origin of the conc.
Other form:	Print version: Benware, Wilbur A. Study of Indo-European vocalism in the 19th century. Amsterdam : Benjamins, 1974

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Preface
1. Table of contents
2. Abbreviations
3. Chapter 1. Basic concepts of language and the methodology for its study in the early nineteenth century
4. Chapter 2. Vocalism and vowel change: Rask, Grimm, Bopp
5. Chapter 3. Vowel gradation theory after Bopp
6. Chapter 4. Proto-Indo-European, `sound laws' and vowels
7. Chapter 5. The reconstruction of proto-vowels
8. Chapter 6. Conclusion
9. Appendices
10. Bibliography
11. Index of authors

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