Mariano Galvez University

PEM English 6th. Semester

Linguistics
Licda. Milvia Rosales





Julia Sofa Bone Figueroa
ID: 5176-12-5540
Date: July 26th/2014
The science that has
been developed around
the facts of language
passed through three
stages before finding its
true and unique object.

*Grammar: It was initiated by the Greeks and
continued mainly by the French, was based
on logic; it gives rules of distinguishing
between correct and incorrect forms.

*Philology: The philologists sought especially
to correct, interpret and comment upon
written texts.
*The third stage began when scholars
discovered that languages can be compared
with one another, Franz Bopp compared
Sanskrit with German, Greek, Latin, etc. but
that had been done for him, notably by the
English orientalist W. Jones who died in 1704
so Bopp did realize that the comparison of
related languages could become the subject
matter of an independent science.
Jacob Grimm
The founder of Germanic studies

Pott
He made a considerabble amount of material available
to linguists

Kuhn
His works dealt with both linguists and comparative
mithology.
Max Mller
He popularized them in his brilliant discussions but his
failing was a certain lack of conscientiousness.

G.Curtius
Curtius, a distinguished philologist who was one of the
first to reconcile comparative philology with classical
philology
August
Shleicher
This linguist was the first to try to codify the results of
piecemeal investigations. His book, with its long record
of service, recalls better than any other the broad
outlines of the comparative schools.
*Language was considered a specific sphere,
a fourth natural kingdom; this led to methods
of reasoning which would have cause
astonishment in other sciences.

*A new school which was formed by the
neogrammarians, whose leaders were all
Germans: K. Brugmann and H. Osthoff; the
Germanic scholars W. Graune, E. Sievers, H.
Paul; the Slavic scholar Leskien, etc. Their
contribution was in placing the results of
comparative studies in their historical
perspective and thus linking the facts in their
natural order.