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[LINGUISTICS] Neskol’ko slov o sravnitel’noi grammatike indoevropeiskikh iazykov [i.e. Some Words about the Comparative Grammar of Indo-European Languages].
Item #2648
Saint Petersburg: Tipografiia V. S. Balasheva, 1882. [1], 53 pp. 22,5 × 12,5 cm. In original printed wrappers.Tears of spine with small fragments lost, ink and pencil marks on front cover, its small corner lost, wrappers soiled, edges of covers and some pages chipped, stamp of Societe de Linguistique de Paris on front cover, t.p. and p. 17, otherwise good.
The book contains an essay written by Polish and Russian linguist Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845—1929). In the Russian Empire, he was called Ivan Alexandrovich Baudouin de Courtenay. Born near Warsaw, he worked in St. Petersburg and Kazan Universities, studying Slavic languages. In the 1910s, he was arrested several times for advocating the Polish language. As the scholar, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay proved that the essence of language is in common speech and dialects.
“According to the statute of 1863, students at Russian universities were required to study the Comparative Grammar of Indo-European Languages, but a few of them knew what it meant” – he started this work. In this essay, he explained interrelations in the Indo-European language family in general and the system of Slavic languages in particular.
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