THE MOTIVES OF THE COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY

2004 ◽  
pp. 8-12
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Philology

scholarly journals Art. XV.—Observations upon the Languages of the Early Inhabitants of Mesopotamia

1884 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-324
Author(s):  
Theo. G. Pinches
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Semitic Languages ◽  
The People ◽  
Comparative Philology

In the following pages I propose to go a little into a subject of great interest, whether we look at it from an antiquarian, or from a scientific point of view—namely, the question of the ancient non-Semitic languages of Mesopotamia and the people by whom they were spoken. To this subject I have given a great deal of attention, and have, by examination of the documents left to us by the Assyrians and Babylonians, their successors, found out many interesting and important facts, which will, I hope, not only prove to be of interest, but also of value to those who make comparative philology their study.

Origins

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-49
Author(s):  
David Damrosch
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Tang Dynasty ◽  
Arab World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Tang Dynasty ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
Renaissance Italy ◽  
Comparative Philology

This chapter explains how the history of comparative literature is a history of archives, such as of libraries and collections that are either preserved or lost and studied or forgotten. It mentions the first library that was established by the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang when he returned from his epochal journey to the western regions in order to collect Buddhist manuscripts. It also talks about the foundations of comparative literature that were established by the comparative philology that began in Renaissance Italy and spread to many parts of Enlightenment Europe. The chapter looks at Max Koch who wrote about comparative literary history and how it gained a sure footing with the inclusion of Oriental material. It also analyzes non-Eurocentric comparatism that draws on philological traditions from China and Japan to the Arab world.

XXIII. Sumerian and Georgian: A Study in Comparative Philology

1913 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 783-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Tseretheli
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Philology ◽  
Agglutinative Language

Since Sumerian studies began Assyriologists and other philologists have tried to compare Sumerian with some known language or group of languages, and thus to solve definitely the important problem of the origin of the primitive civilization of Chaldæa. That the Sumerian race and Sumerian language really existed, and Sumerian was spoken in Babylonia in the most remote epoch, that this language was neither Aryan nor Semitic but an agglutinative language—these are facts now established by the researches of earlier and modern Assyriologists and recognized even officially by science. J. Halévy's theory, denying the very existence of the Sumerians and their language, has now no followers among serious scientists, and the study of Sumerian is based upon such methods and facts that the appearance of another Halévy raising anew “the Sumerian question”, and bringing some new arguments in order to support his theory, seems, if not impossible, at least very improbable.

1. Primitive Affinity between the Classical and the Low German Languages

1872 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 167-168
Author(s):  
Neaves
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Low German ◽  
Vernacular English ◽  
The Family ◽  
German Dialects ◽  
Germanic Languages ◽  
Comparative Philology

In this paper the author adverted to the limited attention that was paid in this country to comparative philology, and noticed the principles it had developed and the progress it had made elsewhere of late years.In illustration of the results thus attained in the Aryan or Indo-Germanic languages, he took as familiar examples the affinities that could be traced between the Latin and the Old English tongues, viewing the Latin as a type of the earlier branches of the family, including the Greek and Indian; and the English as a type of a later branch, consisting chiefly of the Low German dialects. The affinities referred to were not those which connected Latin with English through the romance languages, but those which subsisted between Latin and vernacular English, and which must have arisen from a prehistoric identity or connection.

Recent Literature on Comparative Philology

1918 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
E. H. Sturtevant
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Comparative Philology
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