Abstract
On The Role of the "Young Grammar School" in the History of Linguistics Summary The term "young grammarians" refers to a group of linguists formed in Leipzig in the 1970s. The main representatives of young grammarians were A. Leskien, B. Delbrück, G.Paul, G.Osthoff, K.Brugman, W.Brounet and E. Severs. Young grammarians consider linguistics exclusively as a diachronic, historical-comparative discipline. This is expressed in the most important work of the time, The Principles of Linguistic History by Herman Paul. With their hypothesis of the "non-exclusivity of the laws of sounds", they attempted to re-establish linguistics within a purely scientific framework. This development was the result of the growing competition between the humanities and the natural sciences. According to them, language changes occur without exception on the basis of the natural laws of sound. Linguistic knowledge should be based solely on observable facts and not on abstractions. Key words: linguistic schools, neogrammarians, the principle of historicism, phonetics, phonology, sound, comparison
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