Humboldt: 'on Language': On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and Its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species by Wilhelm von Humboldt, Michael Losonsky

Humboldt: 'on Language': On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and Its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species

Wilhelm von Humboldt, Michael Losonsky

344 pages • first pub 1836 (editions)

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This classic study of human language was first published in 1836, as a general introduction to Humboldt's treatise on the Kawi language of Java. It is the final statement of his lifelong study of language, exploring its universal structures and it...

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