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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 classi...
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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.
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Price: $29.95
Pages: 320
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Date: 29 January 1972
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780812210286
Format: Paperback
BISACs: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
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"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."
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), German man of letters and diplomat, was also an extraordinary philologist.

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

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