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The 25 pages that link to Jacob Grimm, each with the reason it gives.

• Historical linguisticsRelated: Grimm's law became a landmark example of systematic sound change.

• PhilologyBroader topic: His work joined historical language comparison with the study of literary and cultural traditions.

• Comparative linguisticsRelated: His formulation made recurring sound change a foundation of historical comparison.

• Grimm's lawRelated: His 1822 account gave the law its familiar name.

• William JonesRelated: Grimm showed how patterned sound changes could explain differences among related languages.

• Brothers GrimmBroader topic: His linguistic scholarship and editorial work helped define the brothers' joint project.

• Franz BoppRelated: Grimm’s work complemented Bopp’s grammatical comparisons with systematic evidence from sound change.

• Charles PerraultRelated: The Grimms’ later versions offer a major comparison with Perrault’s literary retellings.

• Indo-European studiesRelated: The law exemplified how regular sound change could distinguish a language branch.

• Rasmus RaskRelated: Grimm developed a famous account of consonant shifts that Rask had anticipated in part.

• August SchleicherRelated: Grimm’s sound correspondences supplied evidence for historical comparison in Schleicher’s era.

• Indo-European sound lawsRelated: His account gave a famous, broad pattern of regular change a lasting formulation.

• Linguistic reconstructionRelated: Grimm’s law exemplifies the regular sound correspondences that underpin reconstruction.

• Vuk KaradžićRelated: Grimm’s scholarship helped bring Karadžić’s collections to European attention.

• Grimms' Fairy TalesRelated: His scholarship and editorial work helped establish the collection.

• Standard GermanRelated: His scholarship documented German language history beyond contemporary standard usage.

• Clemens BrentanoCompared with: Grimm’s scholarly collecting contrasts with Brentano and Arnim’s literary reshaping of songs.

• European folkloreRelated: His scholarship linked language history with the study of inherited traditions.

• German dialectsRelated: His work on Germanic sound correspondences supported systematic study of dialect history.

• Achim von ArnimRelated: His scholarship provides a useful comparison with Arnim and Brentano’s literary folk-song collecting.

• Jacob BurckhardtRelated: Grimm’s cultural scholarship formed part of the wider 19th-century historical milieu.

• Wilhelm GrimmRelated: Wilhelm’s lifelong scholarly and editorial partnership with Jacob produced their best-known collections.

• German studiesBroader topic: His linguistic scholarship helped make historical language study central to the field.

• Karl LachmannRelated: Grimm and Lachmann helped establish historical German philology in the same scholarly generation.

• History of linguisticsBroader topic: Grimm’s law became a famous model of regular sound change.