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

by Franz Bopp

Series:Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics (3)

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The publication in 1816 of Bopp's U ber das Conjugations system 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 show more bio-bibliographical account of Bopp by J. D. Guigniaut, an introduction to Analytical C show less

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