Hermann Paul
Hermann Otto Theodor Paul (August 7, 1846, Salbke – December 29, 1921, Munich) was a German linguist and lexicographer. He was professor for German language and literature in Freiburg in the Breisgau as well as Munich, and he was a prominent Neogrammarian.
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His main work, Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte (Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1st ed. 1880), has been translated into English: Paul, Hermann 1970. Principles of the History of Language, translated from 2nd edition by H.A. Strong. College Park: McGroth Publishing Company, ISBN 0843401141.
From a theoretical linguistic perspective, Hermann Paul contended that sentences are the sum of their parts (1886. See also, Blumenthal, 1970). Sentences arise sequentially from individual associations, linked together in a linear form. These contentions were contradicted by Wilhelm Wundt (1900) who believed that sentences begin as a simultaneous thought that is converted into linear, sequential parts.
Not to be confused with Hermann Daniel Paul (1827 - 1885), who emigrated from Germany to Finland, where he worked as a language teacher and music reviewer. He published a translation of the Finnish national epic Kalevala in 1885 (G. W. Edlund's publishing house, Helsingfors).
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- Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte, German original of Hermann Paul's main book Principles of the History of Language
- A partial French translation of Hermann Paul's main book, Principles of the History of Language
