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- Title
Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851–1887) et les Néo-grammairiens.
- Authors
Comtet, Roger
- Abstract
The Polish linguist Miko?aj Kruszewski (1851-1887) is usually considered as a Neogrammarian, including by his teachter and compatriot Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845-1929). In order to verify the validity of this claim, we first of all shall outline the main points in his life and work, which will allow us to situate him better with respect to the Neogrammarians. We shall see that his relationhip between him and the Neogramarians has been a complex one ; there has been borrowing, imitation, reformulation and highly original creativity on Kruszewski's part. We shall realize, investigating Kruszewski's initial works dedicated to linguistics and ethnography (above all Magic formulas as a genre of oral poetry, 1876), that he was far more influenced by Anglo-Saxon ethnology and empirical psychology, which he discovered when a student at the Warsaw university. In fact, his linguistic thought is the result of two scientific legacies, one of them English, the other German, which offers a wonderful example of the fruitfulness of the intercultural dialogue.
- Subjects
KRUSZEWSKI, Mikolaj; NEOGRAMMARIANS; LINGUISTIC change; 19TH century linguistics; LINGUISTS
- Publication
Historiographia Linguistica, 2018, Vol 45, Issue 1/2, p153
- ISSN
0302-5160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/hl.00019.com