The Philosophical Foundations of Humboldt's Linguistic Doctrines
Martin L. Manchester
Jan 1985 · Studies in the History of the Language Sciences Book 32 · John Benjamins Publishing
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Wilhelm von Humboldts writings on language are a mixture of philosophical theorizing about mind and language on the one hand, and on the other hand, specialized studies of the most detailed sort of both the classical languages and languages which only in Humboldts day were becoming known to European scholars, such as Sanskrit, Chinese, and native north and south American languages. This book endeavors to show that Humboldts work on language is a coherent system of thought; to recapture and expose the systematic structure of assumption, hypothesis, argument and conclusion; and to assign many of the specific themes in his writing to a place within this structure.
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