''Grundriß der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen'' (

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for ''"Outline of the

comparative grammar Comparative linguistics, or comparative-historical linguistics (formerly comparative philology) is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. Genetic relatedness ...

of the Indo-Germanic languages"'') is a major work of

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: # to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages # ...

Karl Brugmann Karl Brugmann (16 March 1849 – 29 June 1919) was a German linguist. He is noted for his work in Indo-European linguistics. Biography He was educated at the universities of Halle and Leipzig. He taught at the gymnasium at Wiesbaden and at Le ...

and

Berthold Delbrück Berthold Gustav Gottlieb Delbrück (; 26 July 1842 – 3 January 1922) was a German linguist who devoted himself to the study of the comparative syntax of the Indo-European languages. Early life Delbrück was born in Putbus. He studied at the un ...

, published in two editions between 1886 and 1916. Brugmann treated

phonology Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

and

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, and Delbrück treated

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. The grammar of

Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. No direct record of Proto-Indo-E ...

(PIE) is reconstructed from those of its daughter languages known in the late 19th century. The work represents a major step in

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, after

Franz Bopp Franz Bopp (; 14 September 1791 – 23 October 1867) was a German linguist known for extensive and pioneering comparative work on Indo-European languages. Early life Bopp was born in Mainz, but the political disarray in the Republic of Mai ...

's ''Comparative Grammar'' of 1833 and

August Schleicher August Schleicher (; 19 February 1821 – 6 December 1868) was a German linguist. His great work was ''A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages'' in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European languag ...

's ''Compendium'' of 1871. Brugmann's

neogrammarian The Neogrammarians (German: ''Junggrammatiker'', '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 ...

re-evaluation of PIE resulted in a view that in its essence continued to be valid until present times.

First edition

*Brugmann **Volume I: Phonology (1886) **Volume II, Part I: Noun (1888) **Volume II, Part II: Numerals and Pronouns, Verb (1892) **Indices (1893) *Delbrück **Volume III: Syntax, Part I (1893) **Volume IV: Syntax, Part II (1897) **Volume V: Syntax, Part III (1900) The volumes of the first edition were translated into English by

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(Volume I), Robert S. Conway and William H. D. Rouse (Volume II and the Indices) shortly after their appearance.

Second edition

Immediately after publication of the first edition, Brugmann began to work on an extensively revised second edition of his portion of the ''Grundriß'': *Volume I: (1897) *Volume II.1: (1906) *Volume II.2: (1911) *Volume II.3: (1916)

External links

''Indogermanisches Wörterbuch'' by Gerhard Köbler
containing the PIE grammar from the ''Grundriß''

(University of Texas)

describing the digital availability of the ''Grundriß'' 1886 non-fiction books Etymological dictionaries Indo-European linguistics works Grammar books {{ie-lang-stub

First edition

Second edition

See also

PIE dictionaries

External links