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- In 1870 young German scholars, the Junggrammatiker (‘Neogrammarians’) declared in their programmatic statement (by Osthoff and Brugmann) that a change ‘in the face of comparative linguistics’ was necessary for it to gain the reliability of the natural sciences.
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Jun 18, 2024 · Whilst historical linguistics was comparative at the time, without the power of the Neogrammarian hypothesis it was largely limited to appeals to antiquity or the perceived perfection and refinement of the language in question and focused on shared retentions of the earlier language.
The Neogrammarians (German: Junggrammatiker, pronounced [ˈjʊŋɡʁaˌmatɪkɐ] ⓘ, lit. 'young grammarians') were a German school of linguists, originally at the University of Leipzig, in the late 19th century who proposed the Neogrammarian hypothesis of the regularity of sound change. [1]
marians (Junggrammatiker). Osthoff and Brugmann decried "the fundamental errors which dominated the entire older liguistics;" 1 and they insisted that "only that comparative linguist who for once emerges from the hypotheses-beclouded atmosphere of the work shop in which the original Indo-European forms are forced, and steps into the clear air of...
- Olga Amsterdamska
- 1987
Osthoff and Brugmann decried “the fundamental errors which dominated the entire older liguistics;” 1 and they insisted that “only that comparative linguist who for once emerges from the hypotheses-beclouded atmosphere of the workshop in which the original Indo-European forms are forced, and steps into the clear air of tangible reality ...
- Olga Amsterdamska
- 1987
Aug 25, 2009 · contrast is made between the older approach to comparative linguistics with the new approach. there is a naming of the new group and its associated movement: the Junggrammatiker, or Neogrammarians (p. 199) (originally used as a derogatory term by older comparativists such as Curtius).
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Brugmann was the central figure of the Junggrammatiker, or Neogrammarians, who in the 1870s rejected a doctrinaire approach to language science, asserted the inviolability of phonetic laws, and adhered to strict research methodology.
