Linguistic variability & intellectual development
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Linguistic variability & intellectual development
（Pennsylvania paperback, 28）
University of Pennsylvania press, 1972, c1971
1st Pennsylvania paperback edition
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Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluss auf die geistige Entwickelung des Menschengeschlechts
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Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues ...
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Copyright c1971 by Univeristy of Miami Press
Bibliography: p. [287]-290
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Linguistic Variability and Intellectual Development, Wilhelm von Humbolt's most famous work, was published by his brother Alexander posthumously, in 1836. It promptly established itself as a classic in the philosophy of language and has held that position ever since. With many examples from a vast multitude of languages, from Sanskrit to Delaware Indian, the author shows how character and structure of a language expresses the inner life and knowledge of its speakers and how their intellectual development is in turn shaped by their language.
Table of Contents
Note 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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