Hermann Paul's 'Principles of Language History' Revisited: Translations and Reflections (linguae & litterae, 51) - Hardcover

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Peter Auer, Universität Freiburg; Robert W. Murray, University of Calgary, Kanada.

Peter Auer, University of Freiburg, Germany; Robert W. Murray, University of Calgary, Canada.

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Hermann Paul's Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte served as the most important codification and development of Neogrammarian thought for more than four decades (1st ed., 1880; 5th ed., 1920). For the present volume, four well-known linguists have translated specially selected chapters of the Prinzipien into English and provide their reflections on Hermann Paul's contribution on a range of topics from analogy, reanalysis, and sound change to the development of linguistic norms and the status of linguistics as a science.