ISBN:
0521660890
,
0521667720
,
9780521660891
,
9780521667722
Language:
English
Pages:
XLI, 296 Seiten
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
Uniform Title:
Ueber die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluss auf die geistige Entwickelung des Menschengeschlechts
DDC:
410
Keywords:
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
;
Humboldt Wilhelm
;
Freiherr von
;
1767-1835
;
Contributions in philosophy of language
;
Language and languages Philosophy
;
Language and languages Philosophy
Description / Table of Contents:
Distribution and cultural connections of the Malayan races; plan of the present work -- General consideration of the course of man's development -- The same, continued -- Effects of exceptional mental power; Civilization, culture and education -- Conjoint action of individuals and nations -- The same, continued -- Transition to closer consideration of language -- Form of languages -- Nature and constitution of languages as such -- Sound system of languages; nature of the articulated sound; sound-changes; allocation of sounds to concepts; designation of general relation; the sense of articulation; sound-system of languages; technique of this -- Inner linguistic form -- Combination of sound with inner linguistic form -- The procedure of language more fully explained; verbal affinity and verbal form -- Isolation, inflection and agglutination of words -- Verbal unity more closely examined; incorporative system of languages; means of designating verbal unity; the pause; letter-change -- Accent -- Incorporative system of languages; framing of the sentence -- Congruence of sound-forms in languages with grammatical requirements -- Main division of languages, according to the purity of their formative principle -- Character of languages; poetry and prose -- Power of languages, to evolve felicitously from one to another; act of spontaneous positing in languages; the verb; the conjunction; the relative pronoun; inflective languages, considered in their progressive development; languages evolved from Latin -- Retrospect on the course of the inquiry so far; languages that deviate from purely regular form -- Nature and origin of less perfect language-structure; the Semitic languages; the Delaware language -- The Chinese language; the same, continued; the Burmese language -- Whether the polysyllabic language-structure has evolved from the monosyllabic.
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam024/98056527.html
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