GRAZIADIO ISAIA ASCOLI (1829–1907)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V02,
Page 723
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
GRAZIADIO ISAIA See also:ASCOLI (1829–1907)
, See also:Italian philologist; of Jewish See also:family, was See also:born at See also:Gorz, and at an See also:early See also:age showed a
marked linguistic See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent
.
In 18J4 he published his Studii orientali e linguistici, and in 186o was appointed See also:professor of See also:philology at See also:Milan
.
He made various learned contributions to the study of Indo-See also:European and Semitic See also:languages, and also of the gipsy See also:language, but his See also:special See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field was the Italian dialects
.
He founded the Archivio glottologico italiano in 1873, See also:publishing in it his Saggi Ladini, and making it in succeeding years the See also:great See also:organ of See also:original scholarship on this subject
.
He was universally recognized as the greatest authority on Italian linguistics, and his See also:article in the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th ed., revised for this edition) became the classic exposition in See also:English
.
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