German linguist who pioneered the family-tree (Stammbaum) model for visualizing relationships among languages and produced an early systematic reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. He described language as an organism with periods of development, maturity and decline, and composed Schleicher's Fable, a short narrative in reconstructed Proto-Indo-European, to demonstrate the method.
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RoleLinguist; originator of the family-tree model and early reconstructor of Proto-Indo-European 1 Connections
Associated With
Schleicher produced an early systematic reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European and modeled its descendant languages as a family tree.
Source Wikipedia: August Schleicher
Influenced By
Bopp's comparative method for reconstructing grammatical forms across Indo-European languages underlies Schleicher's later family-tree model and reconstructions.
Source Wikipedia: Franz Bopp
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1. Wikipedia: August Schleicher
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Schleicher is commonly recognized as the first linguist to portray language evolution using the figure of a tree
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German linguist who pioneered the family-tree (Stammbaum) model for visualizing relationships among languages and produced an early systematic reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European.
View the Source Wikipedia: Franz Bopp
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