Resumo: Tendo em vista que Chomsky usa o conceito de forma presente em Humboldt como um dos alicerces de sua teoria, o objetivo deste artigo é o de analisar detalhadamente um possível estreitamento das ideias humboldtianas causado pela interpretação chomskiana que teria provocado, em alguma medida, um distanciamento entre o gerativismo e outras teorias. Por isso, a hipótese deste trabalho é que Humboldt, devido a abrangência de suas ideias, já havia, embrionariamente, apresentado algumas das soluções que acabaram sendo propostas por Newmeyer (1998) em sua análise sobre a convergência entre funcionalismo e gerativismo.
Palavras-chave:Forma da língua; Humboldt; Chomsky.Abstract: Given the fact that Chomsky uses the concept of form developed in Humboldt's work as one of the basis of his theory, this paper aims at analyzing in detail a possible narrowing of humboltian ideas caused by the chomskyan interpretation which would have caused, to same extent, a distance between generative theory and other theories. Therefore, the hypothesis is that Humboldt, because the scope of his ideas, had presented, embryonically, some of the solutions that have just been proposed by Newmeyer (1998) in his analysis of the convergence of functionalism and generativism.
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