Meanings
- not comparableRelated to the origin or primordial development of language; related to glottogony.
The glottogonic view was perhaps the principal difference between the Neogrammarians and their predecessors.
2007, Prof. Lyle Campbell, Glossary of Historical Linguistics, page 723 more examples
Indirectly, this echoes the Neogrammarians, who, upon rejection of the glottogonic separation of stages of language held by their predecessors (cf. 4.10., 5.) affirmed that in the IE languages, "die Schöpfung neuen Stoffes niemals ganz aufgehört hat" ["the development of new grammatical material had never stopped"](Paul 1920 [1898], 175).
1993, Joachim Jacobs, editor, Syntax: an international handbook of contemporary research, page 1141There are now quite a few glottogonic theories, some of which are also concerned with the origin of words as, for example, the one that argues that original words are connected with phonosymbolism, […]
1995, Werner Winter, editor, On Languages and Language […] , Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 19Johannes Schmidt was later to argue that it was a natural step for the generation of scholars following Schleicher to discard the glottogonic reconstructions.
2001, Sylvain Auroux, editor, History of the Language Sciences, page 1237
Origin
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