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RASK, RASMUS.
Anvisning till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket. Från Danskan öfversatt och omarbetad af Författaren.
Stockholm, A. Wiborgs Forlag, 1818. 8vo. Bound in a contemporary half calf binding with gilt spine. Gilt title label to spine. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Insignificant water stains to top margin of the first few leaves and plate. Few scattered brownspots, otherwise internally clean. XXVIII,298,(2) pp + 1 engraved plate.
Reference : 57135
First Swedish edition, published the same year as the original Danish edition, of Rask's main work 'Undersögelse om det Gamle Nordiske eller Islandske Sprogs Oprindelse'. This treatise constitutes a founding work, not only in Nordic Philology, but also in comparative linguistics altogether. For the first time, Rask emphasised the importance of examining similarities in grammatical structure as opposed to etymology in comparative linguistics. Independently of Rask, the German linguist Jacob Grimm took a similar approach in his 'Deutsche Grammatik' published in 1819. Hjelmslev I, 27.
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Anvisning till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket. Från Danskan öfversatt och omarbetad af Författaren.
Stockholm, A. Wiborgs Forlag, 1818. 8vo. Ubeskåret i det originale blå omslag. En smule slid og rifter i kanter og kapitæler. Enkelte spredte brunpletter ellers ren og pæn indvendig. Den kobberstukne planche mangler. XXVIII,298,(2) pp.
Første svenske udgave af Rasks hovedværk ""Undersögelse om det Gamle Nordiske eller Islandske Sprogs Oprindelse"", udkommet samme år som den danske originaludgave. Et hovedværk i nordisk filologi. - Rask Bibliografi I,27.
