Author: William Humboldt
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-02-10
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 9781333914653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from An Essay on the Best Means of Ascertaining for Affinities of Oriental Languages: Contained in a Letter Addressed to Sir Alexander Johnston, Knt., V. P. R. A.S I have the honour 'to return you Sir James Mackintosh's interesting memoir. It possesses (like every thing which comes from the pen of that gifted and ingenious writer) the highest interest; and the, ideas which are so luminously developed in it have the more merit, if we consider, that, at the period when this memoir was published, philosophical notions on the study and nature of languages were rarer and more novel than they are at present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Roger Langham Brown
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 3110877635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tullio De Mauro
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9027278121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Both Leibniz and Humboldt are scholars in whose work we find a passionate interest in the history and development of languages combined with a strong theoretical commitment. Linking their names to linguistic comparativism draws attention to the contribution these scholars have made to the history of comparativism and also promotes discussion of the relationship of theory and practice in linguistic research in more general terms. In September 1986, a conference on Leibniz, Humboldt and the Origins of Comparativism' was held in Rome. The papers included in this volume are revised versions of the papers presented at the conference.