Leipzig school of linguistics

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The Leipzig school of linguistics was a 19th-century German linguistic movement centered in Leipzig, known for its rigorous historical-comparative methods and for formulating the Neogrammarian principles of regular sound change.

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instanceOf academic movement
linguistic school
activeInCentury 19th century
associatedWith August Leskien NERFINISHED
Berthold Delbrück NERFINISHED
Eduard Sievers NERFINISHED
Hermann Osthoff NERFINISHED
Hermann Paul NERFINISHED
Karl Brugmann NERFINISHED
Neogrammarians NERFINISHED
centeredAt University of Leipzig NERFINISHED
contributedTo development of scientific linguistics
formulation of sound law methodology
standardization of comparative method in linguistics
corePrinciple apparent exceptions explained by analogy and borrowing
phonetic change is regular
sound laws have no exceptions
country Germany NERFINISHED
field comparative linguistics
historical linguistics
linguistics
hasAlternativeName Leipzig Neogrammarians NERFINISHED
Leipzig school NERFINISHED
historicalContext late 19th-century German philology
influenced 20th-century structural linguistics
Indo-European studies NERFINISHED
historical phonology
morphological analogy theory
knownFor doctrine of regular sound change
formulation of Neogrammarian principles
rigorous historical-comparative methods
languageOfScholarship German
locatedIn Leipzig NERFINISHED
methodologicalApproach empirical study of sound change
historical-comparative method
reconstruction of proto-languages
movementType Neogrammarian movement NERFINISHED
opposedTo earlier speculative comparative grammar
researchFocus Baltic languages NERFINISHED
Germanic languages
Indo-European languages
Slavic languages
analogy in language change
sound laws

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Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws associatedWithPlace Leipzig school of linguistics