A Reader in Nineteenth Century Historical Indo-European Linguistics
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CONTENTS
| Introduction by the Editor | 1 | ||
| 1. | Sir William Jones: The Third Anniversary Discourse, on the Hindus | 7 | |
| 2. | Friedrich von Schlegel: On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians | 21 | |
| 3. | Rasmus Rask: An Investigation concerning the Source of the Old Northern or Icelandic Language | 29 | |
| 4. | Franz Bopp: On the Conjugational System of the Sanskrit Language | 38 | |
| 5. | Jacob Grimm: Germanic Grammar | 46 | |
| 6. | Wilhelm von Humboldt: On the Structural Variety of Human Language and Its Influence on the Intellectual Development of Mankind | 61 | |
| 7. | Rudolf von Raumer: Linguistic-Historical Change and the Natural-Historical Definition of Sounds | 67 | |
| 8. | August Schleicher: Introduction to A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European, Sanskrit, Greek and Latin Languages | 87 | |
| 9. | C. Lottner: Exceptions to the First Sound Shift | 97 | |
| 10. | Hermann Grassmann: Concerning the Aspirates and Their Simultaneous Presence in the Initial and Final of Roots | 109 | |
| 11. | Karl Verner: An Exception to the First Sound Shift | 132 | |
| 12. | Heinrich Hubschmann: On the Position of Armenian in the Sphere of the Indo-European Languages | 164 | |
| 13. | Karl Brugmann: Nasalis Sonans in the Original Indo-European Language | 190 | |
| 14. | Hermann Osthoff and Karl Brugman: Preface to Morphological Investigations in the Sphere of the Indo-European Languages I | 197 | |
| 15. | Eduard Sievers: On the Accent and Phonology of the Germanic Languages. III. On the Law of Vocalic Finals | 210 | |
| 16. | Ferdinand de Saussure: Memoire on the Primitive System of Vowels in the Indo-European Language | 217 | |
| 17. | William Dwight Whitney: Language and the Study of Language, Lecture X | 225 | |
| 18. | Eduard Sievers: Foundations of Phonetics | 257 |
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