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Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt [a] (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a German philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Linguistics is the scientific study of language, [1] involving analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. [2]Language use was first systematically documented in Mesopotamia, with extant lexical lists of the 3rd to the 2nd Millennia BCE, offering glossaries on Sumerian cuneiform usage and meaning, and phonetical vocabularies of foreign languages.
Von Humboldt argued that languages with an inflectional morphological type, such as German, English and the other Indo-European languages, were the most perfect languages and that accordingly this explained the dominance of their speakers with respect to the speakers of less perfect languages. Wilhelm von Humboldt declared in 1820:
Wilhelm von Humboldt Memorial, Berlin in front of the main building by artist Paul Otto. Similar to the University of Bonn, the University of Berlin was established by King Friedrich Wilhelm III on 16 August 1809, during the period of the Prussian Reform Movement, on the initiative of the liberal Prussian philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von ...
A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics).Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows several languages), a translator/interpreter (especially in the military), or a grammarian (a scholar of grammar), but these uses of the word are distinct (and one does not have to be ...
Chomsky traces the development of linguistic theory from Descartes to Wilhelm von Humboldt, that is, from the period of the Enlightenment directly up to Romanticism. According to Chomsky, the central doctrine of Cartesian Linguistics is that the general features of grammatical structure are common to all languages and reflect certain ...
Virgil Aldrich; William Alston; G. E. M. Anscombe; Karl-Otto Apel; Saint Thomas Aquinas, OP; Aristotle; J. L. Austin; Alfred Jules Ayer; Joxe Azurmendi; Jody Azzouni
With the assistance of other Humboldt scholars [70] and the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Mueller-Vollmer undertook as principle editor (Herausgeber) to publish with the Schoeningh Verlag a multi-volume series of Humboldt’s empirical writings on linguistics that would present and evaluate Humboldt’s linguistic legacy in ...