1. Grammar and Philosophy in the Age of Comparativism

Polyglot nationalism. Alternative perspectives on language in 19th century Hungary

“…Speakers were credited with Sprachgefühl, a special talent for the norms of their own language. This set the stage for the famous "emotionalization" of the concept in the 19 th century, when mother tongue was increasingly linked to childhood, identity, private interactions, and the sentimentality often attributed to the Victorian era (Ahlzweig 1994: 92-126, 127;Formigari 1999).…”