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.