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  3. Die Verwantschaftsverhältnisse der indogermanischen Sprachen
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2015
Print publication year:
2013
Online ISBN:
9781139600071
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139600071
Subjects:
European Language and Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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Book description

The German linguists Johannes Schmidt (1843–1901) and Hugo Schuchardt (1842–1927) sought to answer many questions relating to the development of Indo-European languages, which are all believed to be descended from a single common ancestor. Schmidt's Verwantschaftsverhältnisse was originally published in 1872 and Schuchardt's Über die Lautgesetze followed in 1885; here they are reissued together in one volume. Schmidt's work developed the 'wave model' of language change, to which Schuchardt also subscribed. According to this theory, linguistic innovations spread outwards concentrically like waves, which become progressively weaker as time elapses and the distance from their point of origin increases. Since later changes may not cover the same area, there may be no sharp boundaries between neighbouring languages or dialects. This theory stood in opposition to the tree model and the doctrine of sound laws propounded by the Neogrammarian school of linguists, which is roundly critiqued in Schuchardt's contribution.

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