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Romanische Philologie, bes. franz. Wortbildung, franz. Etymologie, franz. u. ital. Textkritik

Mitgl. Berliner Ges. f. das Stud. d. neueren Sprachen.

<blockquote>„This book [=Die Suffixwandlungen], running to fully 322 pages, is in no way comparable to the average German dissertation; written by a man barely twenty-five years old, it is one of the all-time masterpieces in Romance linguistics and would have deserved to rank ever since as a classic were it not for the fact the Cohn happened to be an incurable ''Pechvogel''. Thus Cohn’s indisputable ''magnum opus'' fell short of producing a splash, as his thesis director Tobler undoubtedly had hoped; but it was widely consulted and eulogistically cited by the small coterie of real connoisseurs, including W. Meyer-Lübke. Publishing, first, a fragment of one’s dissertation and later a generously expanded edition was, I repeat, not unheard in those years; the prototype, for scholars of Cohn’s generation was, obivously, Hugo Schuchardt’s ''Der Vokalismus des Vultärlateins'', in three solid volumes, but preceded by a slender exploratory tract – composed in Latin (''De sermonis Roman plebei vocalibus'', 1864). This later complication [=compilation ? (FRH)] became supererogatory in Cohn’s days, especially because his ''Promotion'', the ambiguity of the dissertation’s title notwithstanding, was in Romance, while Schuchardt’s, at Bonn, had been in Latin, under the guidance of the textual critic Friedrich Ritschl rather than of the comparatist Friedrich Diez“ (Malkiel, 1978, 243).

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