Negative comparison

[Rolf Hellebust]

Hello Rolf!

Probably you have already received definitive answers from SEELANGers 
with greater expertise than mine -- but in case you haven't, I do 
remember Felix Oinas writing that Jakob Grimm (1823) and the Russian 
poet Gnedich (1825) "were the first to characterize the device." 
("Karelian-Finnish Negative Analogy: A Construction of Slavic Origin". 
The Slavic and East European Journal Vol. 20, No. 4 (Winter, 1976), p. 379.)

I would be interested to know if you have received any fuller 
information about this from other sources.

All the best,
Rolf Hellebust

PS: I don't know where it has been described most "prominently", but I 
first encountered the concept in Roman Jakobson's "On Realism and Art".



On 09/12/2011 07:47, FIEGUTH Rolf wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> does somebody of you remember who discovered and described prominently the baltic and slavic folklore formula of the negative comparison (otritsatel'noe sravnenie, negativer Vergleich?
> Best wishes,
>
> Rolf Fieguth
>
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