The Principles of Comparative Philology (Classic Reprint)

Comparative Philology of the I ndo-E uropean languages. Sanskrit has been dethroned from the high place it once occupied as the special representative of the A ryan Parent-S peech, and it has been recognised that primitive sounds and forms have, on the whole, been more faithfully preserved in the languages of Europe than in those of I ndia. The old theory which derived flection from an earlier period of agglutination has been rudely shaken, and Professor Delbriick, its latest advocate, in his Introduction to theS tudy of Language, after admitting that the agglutinative theory has not been verified in individual cases, rests his defence of it solely on the resemblance of the first two personal pronouns to the first two personal terminations of the verb. Professor Tick, so long the leading authority on the doctrine generally received in regard to roots, now rejects it completely (G ott. gelehrte A nzeigen, A p.
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