Introduction to the Study of Language

A Critical Survey of the History and Methods of Comparative Philology of Indo-European Languages

This volume contains a fac simile edition of the 1882 English translation of Delbrück's Einleitung in das Sprachstudium. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Methodik der vergleichenden Sprachforschung (Leipzig 1880), together with a Foreword and a Selected Bibliography.

While WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT is never weary of expounding generalities,
and exerts himself at every turn to subordinate details to ideas, BOPP occupies
himself chiefly with individual points in language , and very seldom intersperses ...