What is the correct chronological order of the publication of the following? (a) German Grammar (Jacob…
Rasmus Rask completed his prize essay An Investigation into the Origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language (c) in 1814 (published 1818), followed by Franz Bopp's…
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What is the correct chronological order of the publication of the following?
(a) German Grammar (Jacob Grimm)
(b) Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek
Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic and German (Franz Bopp)
(c) An Investigation into the Origin of Old Norse or Icelandic Language (Rasmus Rask)
(d) Concerning the Conjugation System of the Sanskrit Language in Comparison with
those of the Greek, Latin, Persian and German Languages (Franz Bopp)
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Correct answer C
Rasmus Rask completed his prize essay An Investigation into the Origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language (c) in 1814 (published 1818), followed by Franz Bopp's Conjugation System of the Sanskrit Language (d, 1816), Jacob Grimm's Deutsche Grammatik (a, 1819), and Bopp's Comparative Grammar (b, 1833), giving the sequence (c), (d), (a), (b).
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