Table of contents
Editor's ForewordV
Portrait of Holger PedersenVIII
Introduction: Holger Pedersen - A Sketch of His Life and WorkIX
Holger Pedersen: A Comprehensive Bibliography of His WritingsXXIII
A Glance at the History of Linguistics, with Particular Regard to the Historical Study of Phonology1
1. Introduction1
2. Pre-19th-century Etymology5
3. The Beginnings of Comparative Linguistics10
4. The Significance of Printing for Linguistics29
5. The 18th Century: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz32
6. Linguistic Comparison: Sámuel Gyarmathi; Rasmus Rask34
7. Early 19th-Century Linguistic Comparison37
8. The Acquaintance with Sanskrit40
9. Bopp's Position in the History of Linguistics43
10. Phonological Treatment in Bopp and Grimm46
11. Rask's Significance in Phonological Study51
12. Grimm Subsequent to Rask's Influence55
13. August Friedrich Pott60
14. Georg Curtius and August Schleicher63
15. Linguistic Discoveries of the 1870s67
16. Wilhelm Scherer74
17. Methodological Discussions of the 1870s and 1880s77
18. Tasks for the Future83
Notes85
Select Bibliography91
Index of Authors97
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