TY  - BOOK
AU  - Humboldt,Wilhelm von
AU  - Losonsky,Michael
TI  - On language: on the diversity of human language construction and its influence on the mental development of the human species 
SN  - 0521667720 (pbk.)
AV  - P103 .H813 1999
U1  - 410.92 LOS 23
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Humboldt, Wilhelm von,
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxvii-xxxix) and index; 1. Distribution and cultural connection of the Malayan races; 2. General consideration of the course of man's development; 3. The same, continued; 4. Effects of exceptional mental power; 5. Conjoint action of individuals and nations; 6. The same, continued; 7. Transition to closer consideration of language; 8. Form of languages; 9. Nature and constitution of languages as such; 10. Sound-system of languages; 11. Inner linguistic form; 12. Combination of sound with inner linguistic form; 13. The procedure of language more fully explained; 14. Isolation, inflection and agglutination of words; 15. Verbal unity more closely examined; 16. Accent; 17. Incorporative system of languages; 18. Congruence of sound-forms in languages with grammatical requirements; 19. Main division of languages, according to the purity of their formative principle; 20. Character of languages; 21. Power of languages to evolve felicitously from one to another; 22. Retrospect on the course of the inquiry so far; 23. Nature and origin of less perfect language-structure; 24. The Chinese language; 25. Whether the polysyllabic language-structure has evolved from the monosyllabic
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