THE ROLE OF SANSKRIT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF F. F. FORTUNATOV’S LINGUISTIC THEORY Cover Image

РОЛЬ САНСКРИТА В СТАНОВЛЕНИИ ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКОЙ ТЕОРИИ Ф. Ф. ФОРТУНАТОВА
THE ROLE OF SANSKRIT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF F. F. FORTUNATOV’S LINGUISTIC THEORY

Author(s): Oksana Anatolievna Voloshina
Subject(s): Language studies, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: Sanskrit; linguistic theory; comparative linguistics; linguistic typology;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the role of Sanskrit in the formation of the linguistic theory of the famous Russian linguist F. F. Fortunatov.The author shows the influence of Sanskrit on the formation of the methodology of comparative historical linguistics in Fortunatov’s works, on his famous teaching about the form of the word, on the typological classification of the world languages, formulated by Fortunatov, on his teaching about the grammatical classes of words and accentual laws. The article concludes that Sanskrit playeda great role in the formation of Fortunatov’s linguistic concepts.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 3 (180)
  • Page Range: 81-88
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian