Proto-Indo-European Reconstruction’s History. A Reader in Nineteenth Century Historical Indo-European Linguistics

University of Texas, 1967. — 262 p.This anthology has been arranged to provide easy access to some of the important works of nineteenth-century historical Indo-European linguistics. These works are not readily available to students, in part because of their language, in part because of the difficulty of obtaining the works themselves. Schlegel's book of 1808, for example, is generally placed in a special section for rare books in a library; the early issues of an important journal like the Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft may be stored in a depository; even the section in Grimm's Grammar dealing with the sound shift may be difficult for a non-specialist in German to locate. An anthology will permit students to become acquainted with some of the key works of the nineteenth century, and to learn at first hand their contributions to the development of linguistics as well as their weaknesses.