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‖ Stammbaum Linguistics.|ˈʃtambaʊm|
[Ger., family tree: the sense was introduced by A. Schleicher in Darwinische Theorie u. die Sprachwissenschaft (1863) 13.]
A family tree of languages: see family-tree s.v. family n. 11. Hence ˈStammbaumtheorie |-ˌteori| (see quot. 1954).
1939E. Prokosch Compar. Gmc. Gram. 21 August Schleicher conceived the Indo-European primitive language as the trunk of a linguistic ‘Stammbaum’. 1954M. A. Pei Dict. Linguistics 162 Pedigree theory, the theory (Stammbaumtheorie) formulated by August Schleicher in 1866, according to which a parent language split into two branches, each of which again bifurcated into two languages, etc. 1965Language XLI. 106 Rodriguez stresses..the ultimate reconcilability of the Stammbaumtheorie and the Wellentheorie. 1971W. Labov in W. O. Dingwall Survey of Linguistic Science 426 One of the classic unresolved dichotomies of historical linguistics is the opposition of the Stammbaum and wave theories of linguistic differentiation. |