Neolinguistics is the school of linguistics founded by
Matteo Bartoli as a reaction to the
Neogrammarians
The Neogrammarians (, , ) were a German school of linguists, originally at the University of Leipzig, in the late 19th century who proposed the Neogrammarian hypothesis of the regularity of sound change.
Overview
According to the Neogrammarian hy ...
. Along with the
Neoidealists it was one of the main rivals of the Neogrammarians, until
structuralism
Structuralism is an intellectual current and methodological approach, primarily in the social sciences, that interprets elements of human culture by way of their relationship to a broader system. It works to uncover the structural patterns t ...
, which emerged from the Neogrammarian tradition, superseded it.
The neolinguists deemphasized the importance of
tree structures in the relationship of languages, and emphasized the importance of variation, especially geographic variation.
References
*Bartoli, Matteo 1925. Introduzione alla neolinguistica (principi, scopi, metodi). Biblioteca dell'«Archivum Romanicum». Serie II: Linguistica, vol. 12. L.S. Olschki.
*Hall, Robert A. Jr. 1946 Bartoli's 'Neolinguistica', ''Language'', vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 273–283.
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