( German for 'Outline of the

comparative grammar Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic ...

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

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical li ...

Karl Brugmann Friedrich Karl Brugmann (; 16 March 1849 – 29 June 1919) was a German linguist. He is noted for his work in Indo-European linguistics. Biography Friedrich Karl Brugman was born in Wiesbaden to a middle-class family in 1849. He was educated a ...

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

phonology Phonology (formerly also phonemics or phonematics: "phonemics ''n.'' 'obsolescent''1. Any procedure for identifying the phonemes of a language from a corpus of data. 2. (formerly also phonematics) A former synonym for phonology, often pre ...

and

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines *Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts *Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...

, and Delbrück treated

syntax In linguistics, syntax ( ) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituenc ...

. The grammar of

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

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

Indo-European studies Indo-European studies () is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical p ...

, after

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

's ''Comparative Grammar'' of 1833 and

August Schleicher August Schleicher (; 19 February 1821 – 6 December 1868) was a German linguist. Schleicher studied the Proto-Indo-European language and devised theories concerning historical linguistics. His great work was ''A Compendium of the Comparative Gr ...

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

neogrammarian The Neogrammarians (, , ) 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. Overview According to the Neogrammarian ...

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 Joseph Wright (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