Author's own copy with his annotations throughout
Essai de sémantique (Science des significations).
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1897.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
First edition. 349 pp. 8vo. Author's own copy with his annotations throughout. Blue half-morocco boards with with some rubbing all around, extensive annotations to the text, with the occasional annotated note card pinned in.
Item #345969
Michel Bréal (1832-1915) was a classical philologist. He studied Indoeuropean languages under Franz Bopp and Albrecht Weber, and translated into French Bopp's main work, Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litauischen, Gotischen und Deutschen, a six volume comparative grammar of Indoeuropean languages. An important early linguist, this work would be the first to introduce the term "Semantics."
In addition to his contributions to linguistics, Bréal also introduced the idea for a Marathon in the Olympics in letters to Pierre de Coubertin.