"Outline of Comparative Indo-European Grammar"

Japanese: 《印欧語比較文法要説》 - いんおうごひかくぶんぽうようせつ
"Outline of Comparative Indo-European Grammar"

…Linguistics is a science that deals with language itself, without being directly related to the historical fate of the people who speak it, and is a part of natural history, and he believed that its study should be based on the methods of natural science. In his large-scale work, “Compendium der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen” (1861-62, 4th edition 1876), published in Weimar, he summarized the research on Indo-European languages ​​(the Indo-European language family) that had begun with F. Bopp, and at the same time, he developed a new attempt to theoretically reconstruct the common root (proto-language) Ursprache of Indo-European languages ​​by searching for the prototype of each form through comparison. He then drew a phylogenetic tree (Stammbaum) of how Indo-European languages ​​diverged from that common root, like the trunk of a tree branching out. …

*Some of the terminology referenced in "Essays on Comparative Grammar of Indo-European Languages" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…言語学は,言語を話す民族の歴史的な運命と直接関係することなく,言語そのものを対象にする学問で,それは自然史の一部をなし,その研究は自然科学の方法によるべきである,と彼は考えていた。ワイマールで刊行された大著《印欧語比較文法要説Compendium der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen》(1861‐62,4版1876)において,彼はF.ボップにはじまる印欧語(インド・ヨーロッパ語族)研究を集大成すると同時に,比較によってそれぞれの形の原型を求め,理論的にインド・ヨーロッパ語の共通基語(祖語)Urspracheを再建するという新しい試みを展開した。そしてその共通基語からインド・ヨーロッパ諸語がどのように分化したかを,木の幹が枝分れしていくように,1本の系統樹Stammbaumに描いた。…

※「《印欧語比較文法要説》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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