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The 10 pages that link to August Schleicher, each with the reason it gives.

• Language changeRelated: His family-tree model made descent and divergence central to accounts of language history.

• Franz BoppRelated: Schleicher extended the comparative tradition that Bopp helped establish.

• Friedrich SchlegelRelated: Schleicher worked within comparative philology's developing structural and historical debates.

• Lithuanian languageRelated: His research brought Lithuanian evidence into historical linguistics.

• Indo-European ablautRelated: His comparative reconstructions helped systematize the study of Indo-European morphology.

• Verner's lawRelated: Verner's 1875 paper addressed a problem in the comparative framework Schleicher helped develop.

• Proto-Indo-European phonologyRelated: His reconstructions helped establish comparative phonology as a systematic discipline.

• Max MüllerCompared with: Schleicher’s evolutionary metaphors differed from Müller’s account of language and its relation to myth.

• Karl LachmannRelated: Schleicher’s later linguistic theorizing developed within the historical philology Lachmann helped establish.

• Evolutionary linguisticsRelated: His work helped establish language change as a subject modeled on biological descent.