Martin L. Manchester

List of John Benjamins publications in which Martin L. Manchester is involved.

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The Philosophical Foundations of Humboldt's Linguistic Doctrines

Martin L. Manchester

Wilhelm von Humboldt’s writings on language are a mixture of philosophical theorizing about mind and language on the one hand, and on the other hand, specialized studies of the most detailed sort of both the classical languages and languages which only in Humboldt’s day were becoming known to… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 32] 1985. xii, 216 pp.

Articles

Manchester, Martin L. 1983 Sprachansichten: Der Begriff der menschlichen Rede in der Sprachphilosophie Wilhelm von Humboldts. By Tilman Borsche Historiographia Linguistica 10:3, pp. 325–329 | Review

Manchester, Martin L. 1982 Philosophical Motives in Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Defense of the Inflectional Superiority Thesis Historiographia Linguistica 9:1/2, pp. 107–120 | Article

Wilhelm von Humboldt, like many other linguists in the early 19th century, claimed that inflectional languages are superior to non-inflecting languages. This thesis waned in popularity after the middle of the century, and the reasons why the claim was made have become historically obscured. The… read more