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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| Leipzig school of linguistics canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
academic movement
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linguistic school ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
August Leskien
NERFINISHED
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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
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formulation of sound law methodology ⓘ standardization of comparative method in linguistics ⓘ |
| corePrinciple |
apparent exceptions explained by analogy and borrowing
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phonetic change is regular ⓘ sound laws have no exceptions ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field |
comparative linguistics
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historical linguistics ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Leipzig Neogrammarians
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Leipzig school NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | late 19th-century German philology ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century structural linguistics
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Indo-European studies NERFINISHED ⓘ historical phonology ⓘ morphological analogy theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
doctrine of regular sound change
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formulation of Neogrammarian principles ⓘ rigorous historical-comparative methods ⓘ |
| languageOfScholarship | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Leipzig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| methodologicalApproach |
empirical study of sound change
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historical-comparative method ⓘ reconstruction of proto-languages ⓘ |
| movementType | Neogrammarian movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposedTo | earlier speculative comparative grammar ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
Baltic languages
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Germanic languages ⓘ Indo-European languages ⓘ Slavic languages ⓘ analogy in language change ⓘ sound laws ⓘ |
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