Wilbur A. Benware

List of John Benjamins publications in which Wilbur A. Benware is involved.

Titles

'Über den Umlaut: Zwei Abhandlungen' (Carlsruhe, 1843) and 'Über den Ablaut' (Carlsruhe, 1844)

Adolf Holtzmann (1810–1870)

Über den Umlaut (1843) and Über den Ablaut (1844) grew out of a review of Grimm’s Deutsche Grammatik by Holtzmann, in which he also made an excursus into Bopp’s theory of vowel gradation in Sanskrit. Holtzmann was the first to observe the correlation of guṇa and accent. At the same time he noted… read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 12] 1977. xxix, 48, and 81 pp.

The Study of Indo-European Vocalism in the 19th century: From the beginnings to Whitney and Scherer. A critical-historical account

Wilbur A. Benware

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… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 3] 1974. xii, 126 pp. 2nd. printing 1995.