Paul R. Sweet

List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul R. Sweet is involved.

Articles

Sweet, Paul R. 1989 On Language: The diversity of human language-structure and its influence on the mental development of mankind. By Wilhelm Von Humboldt Historiographia Linguistica 16:3, pp. 387–392 | Review

Sweet, Paul R. 1988 Wilhelm von Humboldt, Fichte, and the Idéologues (1794–1805): A Re-examination Historiographia Linguistica 15:3, pp. 349–375 | Article

This paper – whose point of departure is Hans Aarsleff s thesis that the intellectual environment provided by the Idéologues in the years 1798–1801 decisively influenced Humboldt’s resolve to make the study of language his central intellectual preoccupation and decisively shaped his ideas about… read more