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Introduction to the Study of Language
A critical survey of the history and methods of comparative philology of Indo-European languages (Leipzig, 1882)
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This volume contains a fac simile edition of the 1882 English translation of Delbrück’s Einleitung in das Sprachstudium. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Methodik der vergleichenden Sprachforschung (Leipzig 1880), together with a Foreword and a Selected Bibliography.
[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 8] 1974. xix, 148 pp. 2nd corrected edition, 1989.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011
Published online on 3 October 2011
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Table of Contents
- Portrait of Berthold Delbrück | pp. vi–6
- Foreword to the 1974 Edition | pp. vii–xvi
- Author's Preface to the 1880 German Edition | pp. xvii–xviii
- Author's Preface to the 1882 English Translation | pp. xix–xxi
- Translator's Preface | pp. xxii–xxiv
- Table of Contents of “Introduction to the Study of Language” | pp. xxv–xxvi
- Introduction to the Study of Language
- I. Historical Part | pp. 1–60
- II. Theoretical Part | pp. 61–139
- Index of Names and Subjects | pp. 140–142
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