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

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

Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

Wilhelm Von Humboldt with Peter Heath (Translator)

344 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction history philosophy
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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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