- Hermann Paul
Hermann Otto Theodor Paul (
August 7 ,1846 ,Salbke –December 29 ,1921 ,Munich ) was a German linguist and lexicographer. He was professor forGerman language and literature inFreiburg in theBreisgau as well as Munich, and he was a prominentNeogrammarian .Works
His main work, "Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte" (Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1st ed. 1880), has been translated into English:Paul, Hermann 1970. "Principles of the History of Language", translated from 2nd edition by H.A. Strong. College Park: McGroth Publishing Company.
From a theoretical linguistic perspective, Hermann Paul contended that sentences are the sum of their parts (1886. See also, Blumenthal, 1970). Sentences arise sequentially from individual associations, linked together in a linear form. These contentions were contradicted by Wilhelm Wundt (1900) who believed that sentences begin as a simultaneous thought that is converted into linear, sequential parts.
External links
* [http://www.buecherquelle.com/paulh/prinzip/paulvorr.htm Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte] , German original of Hermann Paul's main book "Principles of the History of Language"
* [http://ed268.univ-paris3.fr/lpp/pages/EQUIPE/michaud/ressources/HermannPaul1909_PrincipesdelHistoiredesLangues_extraits.pdf A partial French translation of Hermann Paul's main book] , "Principles of the History of Language"
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