Search results for ""Wilhelm von Humboldt" "Linguistic Variability and Intellectual""

Book SynopsisTrade Review"Humboldt's profound study is one of the classics of linguistic theory, a work of great insight and originality, of deep significance for the study of language and of human psychology and culture. His concept of linguistic forms and his ideas concerning linguistic creativiety are particularly fascinating and provocative, and of great contemporary interest." * Noam Chomsky *"This treatise, in our open and covert pro and con, has ever since determined the course of all subsequent philology and philosophy of language. . . . Astounding, obscure, and yet continuously stimulating." * Martin Heidegger *Table of ContentsNote to the Translation Translator's Foreword Preface by Alexander von Humboldt Transliteration of Foreign Alphabets Objective of the Present Treatise 1. The Course of Human Development 2. Effect of Exceptional Intellectual Power: Civilization, Culture, and Education 3. Cooperation of Individuals and Nations 4. A More Detailed Consideration of Language 5. Morphology of Languages 6. Nature and Properties of Language 7. The Phonetic System of Languages 8. Internal Linguistic Morphology and Structure 9. The Relationship of Phonemic Quantity to Intellectual Concept 10. The Linguistic Process: Etymology and Morphology 11. Isolation, Inflection, and Agglutination of Words 12 The Word Unit: The Incorporative Capacity of Language 13. Accentuation 14. The Incorporative System of Languages: Syntactical Sentence Components 15. Congruence of Phonetic Patterns of Languages with Grammatical Requirements 16. Structural Differences Between Languages 17. The Character of Languages 18. Independent Synthesis in Languages 19. A Review of the Present Investigation 20. Less Developed Linguistic Structure: The Semitic and Delaware Indian Languages 21. Less Developed Linguistic Structure: The Chinese and Burmese Languages 22. The Origin of Polysyllabic Structure Notes Bibliography Index

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