Who established the link between Sanskrit and both Latin and Greek, as well as the
Germanic languages
Sir William Jones
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Describe the aspects of Indian Scholarship
phonetics /
phonology, semantics, and morphology
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What developped in the 19th cent ? (comparative and historical linguistics)
models of language change
methodologies for studying language families
and their evolutions
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Who tried to establish the « genetic » relationships between the
world’s languages ?
F. Bopp and J. Grimm
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What were the similarities ?
Lexical and morphological
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Who proposed the
Stammbaumtheorie and attempted to reconstruct an Ursprache
Schleicher
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PIE ?
Proto-Indo-European
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When was it reconstructed ?
19th
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Neogrammarians ?
They were a group of linguists in Leipzig who concentrated on the
regularity of sound changes and traced how these occurred, especially in
Indo-European languages
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What were they interested in ?
empirical descriptions of
languages, not in abstract theories (Stammbaumtheorie)
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Card 2
Front
Who wrote about the
origin and early development of language ?
Back
Rousseau and Condillac
Card 3
Front
What did they create ?
Back
Card 4
Front
Who established the link between Sanskrit and both Latin and Greek, as well as the
Germanic languages
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