August Schleicher (1821-1868)
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sborník prací filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | biography; bibliography; evolution of languages; tree-diagram; August Schleicher |
| Description | Biography and bibliography of one of the most inspiring linguists of the 19th century, who introduced the idea of evolution into genetic linguistics. He also was the author of the first proto-Indo-European reconstructions. As the first West European scholar he used systematically the Slavic and Baltic data in the Indo-European comparanda. |
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