History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage : : An International Handbook on the Evolution of the Study of Language from the Beginnings to the Present / Ein internationales Handbuch zur Entwicklung der Sprachforschung von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. / 2. Teilband / / ed. by Sylvain Auroux.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
• HerausgeberIn: Auroux, Sylvain,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK] , 18/2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Der 2. Teilband behandelt detailliert und oft unter neuen Blickwinkeln die einzelnen Entwicklungsstufen des Sprachstudiums als autonome Disziplin, von der wachsenden Erkenntnis von genetischen Beziehungen zwischen Sprachfamilien im 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts bis zur Etablierung der komparativ-historisch ausgerichteten Indo-Germanistik im 19. Jahrhundert, von der Generation der Schlegels, Bopp, Rask und Grimm bis hin zu den Junggrammatikern und der Anwendung vergleichender Methoden für Nicht-Indo-Europäische Sprachen dieser Erde.

Volume 2 treats, in great detail and, at times quite innovatively, the individual stages of development of the study of language as an autonomous discipline, from the growing awareness in 17th and 18th century Europe of genetic relationships among a host of languages to the establishment of comparative-historical Indo-European linguistics in the 19th century, from the generation of the Schlegels, Bopp, Rask, and Grimm to the Neogrammarians and the application of the comparative method to non-Indo-European languages from all over the globe. Typological linguistic interests, first synthesized by Humboldt, as well as the development of various other non-historical endeavours in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, such as language and psychology, semantics, phonetics, and dialectology, receive ample attention.

Table of Contents

I-IV -- Contents -- Studies of the Antecedents to and Connections between National Languages -- Historical and Comparative Linguistics of the Early 19th Century -- The Establishment of New Philologies in the 19th Century -- Indo-European Philology and Historical Linguistics and their Legacy -- Language Typology, Language Classification, and the Search for Universals -- The Analysis of Speech and Unwritten Languages in the 19th Century and its Continuation in the 20th Century -- Approaches to Semantics in the 19th and the First Third of the 20th Century -- Psychology and Physiology in 19th-Century Linguistics -- Structural Linguistics in the 20th Century -- Traditions of Descriptive Linguistics in America