1896: Here, as in many kindred
questions, the work of Paul Kretschmer of
Vienna (
Einleitung in die Geschichte der
griechischen Sprache, Gottingen,
1896) marked an important epoch in
the historical aspects of linguistic study, as the first scientific
attempt to interpret critically the different kinds of evidence
which the Indo-European languages give us, not in vocabulary
merely, but in phonology,
morphology, and especially in their mutual
borrowings, and to combine it with the non-linguistic data of
tradition and
archaeology. - Latin Language,
1911encyclopedia.