Podcast episode 10: Neogrammarian critics – Hugo Schuchardt and Karl Vossler

In this episode, we examine some of the major critiques directed against the Neogrammarians and see what they tell us about the state of linguistics around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century. We focus in particular on the arguments made by Hugo Schuchardt and Karl Vossler.

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Archive DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4767874

References for Episode 10

Primary Sources

Osthoff, Hermann and Karl Brugman (1878), ‘Vorwort’, Morphologische Untersuchungen 1: i-xx. archive.org

Schmidt, Johannes (1870), Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der indogermanischen Sprachen, Weimar: Böhlau. archive.org

Schmidt, Johannes (1887), ‘Schleichers Auffassung der Lautgesetze’, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 28: 303–312. archive.org

Schuchardt, Hugo (1928 [1870]), ‘Über die Klassifikation der romanischen Mundarten’, in Schuchardt and Spitzer (1928), pp. 166–188.

Schuchardt, Hugo (1885), Über die Lautgesetze. Gegen die Junggrammatiker, Berlin: Oppenheim. Hugo Schuchardt Archiv (English and French trans. available from the Hugo Schuchardt Archiv. Text included in Schuchardt and Spitzer (1928), pp. 51–107.)

Schuchardt, Hugo and Leo Spitzer, eds. (1928), Hugo Schuchardt-Brevier: ein Vademecum der allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft, 2nd ed., Halle (Saale): Niemeyer.

Vossler, Karl (1904), Positivismus und Idealismus in der Sprachwissenschaft, HeidelBerg: Winter. archive.org

Vossler, Karl (1905), Sprache als Schöpfung und Entwicklung, Heidelberg: Winter. archive.org

Wenker, Georg (1877), Das rheinische Platt, Düsseldorf: Self-published. archive.org (Map and further information available from regionalsprache.de)

Secondary Sources

Alter, Stephen G. (2005), William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. See Chap. 9.

Bourdeau, Michel (2018), ‘Auguste Comte’, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2018 Edition), ed. Edward N. Zalta. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2018/entries/comte/

Amsterdamska, Olga (1987), Schools of Thought: The development of linguistics from Bopp to Saussure, Dordrecht: Reidel. See Chap. 6.

Maaß, Holger (2003), ‘Karl Vosslers Sprachphilosophie und die romanische Philologie des 19. Jahrhunderts. Eine wissenssoziologische Betrachtung’, in Traditionen der Entgrenzung. Beiträge zur romanistischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte, eds. F. Estelmann, P. Krügel and O. Müller, pp. 43–55, Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Putchke, Wolfgang (2001), ‘Die Dialektologie, ihr Beitrag zur historischen Sprachwissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert und ihre Kritik am junggrammatischen Programm’, in History of the Language Sciences, vol. 2, eds. Sylvain Auroux, E.F.K. Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe and Kees Versteegh, pp. 1498–1512, Berlin: de Gruyter.

Ringer, Fritz K. (1969), The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German academic community, 1890–1933, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

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