A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue

By:

Rasmus Rask

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Amsterdam classics in linguistics, 1800-1925

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This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This re-edition, with an added bio-bibliography of Rask, should enable the linguist of today to obtain a fairly rounded picture of this important 19th-century scholar who, together with Bopp and Grimm, has justly been ranked among the founding fathers of the comparative-historical study of Indo-European languages. Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787–1832) did not occupy himself with historical linguistics alone as a comparativist, but also with language as a system based on a notion of structure comprised of three key ideas: the idea of wholeness, the idea of transformation (derivation and composition), and the idea of self-regulation. He formulated theoretical and practical premises for the composition of grammars, and in this he was far ahead of his time and in closer proximity to the linguistic concerns and problems of our era. From both theoretical and pedagogical points of view, Rask’s grammar of Icelandic remains a most remarkable work.

Release date Australia

January 1st, 1976

Author

Rasmus Rask

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Edited by Thomas Markey
Translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent

Illustrations

viii, 273 pp.

Pages

342

Series

Amsterdam classics in linguistics, 1800-1925

Dimensions

164x245x23

ISBN-13

9789027208736

Product ID

2424788

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