Chapter published in:
Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography
E.F.K. Koerner †
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 128] 2020
► pp. 69–94

Chapter 4
On the disappearance of August Schleicher in the writings of the Neogrammarians

The case of the analogy concept in historical lingustics

Article outline
  • 1.Introductory observations
  • 2.The place of ‘analogy’ in the neogrammarian doctrine
  • 3.The treatment of Schleicher in linguistic historiography
  • 4.‘Analogy’ in 19th-century linguistic thought
    • 4.1Analogy in Whitney (1867, 1875)
    • 4.2Analogy in Baudouin de Courtenay (1868)
  • 5.The treatment of ‘analogy’ in Scherer (1868)
  • 6.The place of ‘analogy’ in Schleicher (1860)
  • 7.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.128.c4
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