The Philosophical Foundations of Humboldt's Linguistic Doctrines.

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THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HUMBOLDT'S LINGUISTIC DOCTRINES Editorial page Title page Copyright page Table of contents PREFACE KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION 0.1 Introduction 0.2 A brief review of the secondary literature. 0.2.1 Humboldt's philosophical background 0.2.1 Humboldt's concept of 'innere Form' 0.3 The structure of Humboldt's philosophy of language PART ONE THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS CHAPTER ONE HUMBOLDT'S PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND CHAPTER TWO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE 2.1. Introduction 2.2 The term 'articulation' and the articulation argument. 2.2.1 The articulation assumption 2.2.2 The articulation argument 2.3 Signification and conceptualization 2.4 Earlier versions of the articulation argument. 2.4.1 The distinction of primitive and articulated thinking. 2.4.2 The argument for the necessity of language in articulated thinking. 2.5 Résumé CHAPTER THREE HUMBOLDT'S THEORY OF DESIGNATION 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Lexical designation 3.3 Grammatical designation CHAPTER FOUR GENERAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE VARIATION 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Different kinds of language variation 4.3 Humboldt's treatment of universal grammar 4.4 The Terminology of Language Variation CHAPTER FIVE LINGUISTIC VARIATION AND PERCEPTUAL VARIATION 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Perceptual variation 5.2.1 A and B perceive different things 5.2.2 A and B perceive the same things differently CHAPTER SIX NATIONAL CHARACTER AND LANGUAGE 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Humboldt's early discussion of character. 6.3 Discussion of character in Humboldt's later writings. 6.3.1 The priority problem 6.3.2 The concept of force PART TWO THE LINGUISTIC DOCTRINES CHAPTER SEVEN THE INFLECTIONAL SUPERIORITY THESIS 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Language typology 7.3 The meaning of 'inflection' for Humboldt 7.4 The arguments for the inflectional superiority thesis CHAPTER EIGHT THE LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY THESIS 8.1 Introduction 8.2 The historical context 8.3 Humboldt's philosophical grounding of the linguistic relativity thesis 8.4. The conjunction of linguistic relativity with linguistic variation. CONCLUSION NOTES INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CONCLUSION REFERENCES 1. Editions of Wilhelm von Humboldt's works 2. Correspondence cited 3. Other works cited INDEX NOMINUM INDEX RERUM