In the mid-19th century, the German linguist August Schleicher introduced into comparative linguistics the model of the "family tree".
To sum up the previous study, this has been broadly applied not only in anthropological linguistics which has a difference in nasalance score depending on oral cavity but also in comparative linguistics which is a study of comparing nasalance scores between each language.
Modern scientific etymological study is based on the methods and findings of historical and comparative linguistics, the basic principles of which were established by linguists during the 19th century.
Between the typological and language specific poles of linguistic description, we can locate contrastive analysis and comparative linguistics (see Fig. 4).
As a Yale undergraduate, she planned to study comparative linguistics.
An unlikely style maven, she holds a Ph.D. in comparative linguistics.
Josef Dobrovský, (born August 17, 1753, Gyarmat, Hungary died January 6 , 1829 Brno, Moravia, Austrian Empire [now in Czech Republic]) scholar of the Czech language, antiquary, and a principal founder of comparative Slavic linguistics.
August 17, 1753 Gyarmat, Hungary January 6 , 1829Brno, Czech Republic Josef Dobrovský, (born August 17, 1753, Gyarmat, Hungary died January 6 , 1829 Brno, Moravia, Austrian Empire [now in Czech Republic]) scholar of the Czech language, antiquary, and a principal founder of comparative Slavic linguistics.
In Paris he studied Sanskrit, publishing Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (1808), the first attempt at comparative Indo-Germanic linguistics and the starting point of the study of Indian languages and comparative philology.
Verner's important contribution to comparative-historical linguistics appeared in an article, "Eine Ausnahme der ersten Lautverschiebung" ("An Exception to the First Sound Shift"), in the Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung in 1876.
July 8 , 1840Kiel, Germany September 20 , 1916Leipzig, Germany August Leskien, (born July 8 , 1840 Kiel, Holstein died Sept. 20, 1916, Leipzig) German linguist noted for wide-ranging contributions to comparative Indo-European linguistics, particularly for his still authoritative work on the Baltic and Slavic groups.
