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Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages, shewing the original identity of their grammatical structure
New edition
The publication in 1816 of Bopp’s Über 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.
[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 3] 1974. xxxviii, 68 pp. 2nd corrected edition, 1989
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 March 2011
Published online on 14 March 2011
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Table of Contents
- Preface to the 1974 edition | pp. vii–x
- Foreword to the 1989 printing | pp. xi–11
- A. Works by Bopp | pp. xii–12
- Secondary Sources | pp. xiii–xiv
- Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de M. François Bopp (1877[1869])Joseph Daniel Guigniaut | p. xv
- Select Bibliography
- Vorwort des Herausgebers (1889)Friedrich Techmer | p. 3
- Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages, shewing the original identity of their grammatical structure (1820)Franz Bopp | p. 14
- Brief an Franz Bopp über ‘Analytical Comparison’ (1821)Wilhelm von Humboldt | p. 61
- Index of Authors | pp. 67–68
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