Linguistics & Language · Historical & Comparative Linguistics
A topic within Historical & Comparative Linguistics, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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William Jones
Observes that Sanskrit, Greek and Latin share grammatical structure too systematic for coincidence and proposes they descend from a common source language now lost, the founding observation of Indo-European studies.
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Compares the verb conjugation systems of Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Persian and Germanic and argues their systematic correspondences prove common descent, founding comparative grammar as a discipline distinct from etymological speculation.