Aliyeva L.
Nakhchivan State University, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

Abstract
The terminology “young grammarians” refers to a group of young linguists who formed in and around Leipzig in the mid-1970s. The personal classification of this group is not entirely clear – a distinction is usually made between a central group of young grammarians and scientists who have only adopted the approaches and methods of young grammarians without having been directly involved in their training. The Germanists Hermann Paul, Wilhelm Braune and Eduard Sievers, the Indo-Europeanists Hermann Osthoff and Karl Brugmann and Berthold Delbrück are usually counted among the former [1-2]. In many works, August Leskien is still counted among the central group of young grammarians, although he plays a special role in that he was the teacher of many young grammarians and had a decisive influence on the development of their research methods:
This young group of researchers saw themselves as a “new movement” in historical linguistics and rejected the term “young grammarians” for their own research direction, which has nevertheless been used in research to this day and is therefore also used in this work should.
Overall, it is difficult to describe the theories, concepts and methods of young grammar research in detail, as it was a quite heterogeneous group with different focuses and views and, above all, a group that developed immense productivity in its research area and was broad topics covered. A detailed breakdown of the individual, countless works would far exceed the scope of this work, which is therefore omitted and rather the underlying principles and commonalities that led to the success of the young grammarians and that are responsible for the current validity of the approach are highlighted, knowing full well , that it must be an idealized and reduced representation. In this presentation, similar to later structuralists and generativists, only theories that relate to the area of language change are discussed; other areas of research, such as the establishment of a general theory of language with statements about composition, deixis and anaphora, are not taken into account [3-4].

 Keywords: Young grammarians, german linguistics, grammarians trend, factor, determining.