Associations to the word «Neogrammarian»

Wiktionary

NEOGRAMMARIAN, noun. Alternative form of Neogrammarian
NEOGRAMMARIAN, noun. (linguistics) A member of a 19th-century school of German linguists who first advanced the theory of regular sound change; or a follower of that school.
NEOGRAMMARIAN, adjective. Of or pertaining to the Neogrammarian school.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky