'Über den Umlaut: Zwei Abhandlungen' (Carlsruhe, 1843) and 'Über den Ablaut' (Carlsruhe, 1844)
Author： Adolf Holtzmann E.F.K. Koerner Wilbur A. Benware
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 1977
E-ISBN: 9789027281524
Subject： H7 Indo-European Languages
Language： ENG
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Description
(1843) and (1844) grew out of a review of Grimm’s by Holtzmann, in which he also made an excursus into Bopp’s theory of vowel gradation in Sanskrit. Holtzmann was the first to observe the correlation of and accent. At the same time he noted that loss (or absence) of the accent could mean loss or shortening of a vowel. Observations which, be it in a different form, eventually found their way into a unified theory of Indo-European vowel gradation.The two German texts are presented here in fac simile format, together with an introductory article.