TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
T1  - General linguistics and Indo-European reconstruction
N2  - There is good reason to be ambivalent about the usefulness of general considerations in linguistic reconstruction. As a heuristic device, a theoretical framework can certainly be helpful, but the negative potential of aprioristic considerations must not be underestimated. E.g., there is a whole range of phenomena which receive a natural explanation when we assume that glottalization is ancient in Germanic. The methodological question is: why have scholars been reluctant to identify the vestjysk stød with the English glottalization as a historical reality which may have been inherited from the proto-language? The role of general linguistics is to provide an idea of what can be expected in linguistic development, not by theoretical reasoning but by inspection of what actually happens.
KW  - Historische Sprachwissenschaft
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14733
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1156555
UR  - http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art130e.pdf
N1  - Postprint, korrigierte Version, zuerst in: Rask, 2.1995, S. 91-109
VL  - 2
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
ER  -