On the "pre-history" of Romance linguistics: precursors of Friedrich Diez

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dc.contributor.authorIzzo, Herbert J
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-16T21:16:43Z
dc.date.available2016-06-16T21:16:43Z
dc.date.issued1991-09
dc.description.abstractIt is received opinion that Romance linguistics is a scientific discipline that begins with Friedrich Diez, who in his Grammatik der romanischen Sprachen (1836-43) first applied to Romance the principles and methods of IE comparative linguistics newly developed by Rask, Bopp, and Grimm. In fact, however, many of the innovations attributed to Diez (and his Indo-Europeanist contemporaries) were anticipated by now-forgotten predecessors like Pierre Nicholas Bonamy (1694-1770), Carlo Denina (1731-1813), and Carl Ludwig Fernow (1763-1808). It even seems probable that the concept of an Indo-European proto-language and the IE family tree was indirectly inspired by the generally recognized relationship between Latin ("Proto-Romance") and its "daughter languages", French, Italian, Spanish, etc., and that the beginnings of IE linguistics owe at least as much to Romance linguistics as Diez's Romance linguistics owes to the Indo-Europeanists.en_US
dc.description.refereedYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationIzzo, H. J. (1991). On the "pre-history" of Romance linguistics: precursors of Friedrich Diez. Calgary Papers in Linguistics, 14(Fall), 43-54.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28896
dc.identifier.issn2371-2643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51350
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.departmentLinguisticsen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectHistorical linguisticsen_US
dc.subjectRomance languagesen_US
dc.subjectDiez, Friedrich, 1794-1876en_US
dc.subjectIndo-European philologyen_US
dc.subjectIndo-European languagesen_US
dc.titleOn the "pre-history" of Romance linguistics: precursors of Friedrich Diezen_US
dc.typejournal article
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