Apeliotes oder Der Sinn der Sprache

Bildung dekonstruieren

“…Andererseits bedarf der Mensch für die »Entfaltung menschlicher Anlagen« einer »Welt ausser sich« (Humboldt 1792/93, 235;zit.n. Bad, 11) Trabant 1986Trabant , 1990. Humboldt versteht Sprache als ein Medium »jener bildenden Auseinandersetzung des Menschen mit« der materiellen, wie ideellen Welt und den anderen Menschen.…”

Grammar, typology and the Humboldtian tradition in the work of Georg von der Gabelentz

“…(Gabelentz 1891: 82-83) 11 This conception of linguistic production as a synthetic process that effects an analysis is similarly a motif of the Humboldtian tradition. As Trabant (chapter 8 of 2012;1986) explains in his exposition of Humboldt's philosophy of language, Humboldt distanced himself from the traditional Aristotelian semiotic-communicative conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs and instead saw language as the locus of the Kantian faculty of imagination (Einbildungskraft), which creates a synthesis of sensuality (Sinnlichkeit) and understanding (Verstand). According to Humboldt, a word in language is a combination of a physically perceptible sound and a concept, and it is only through the synthetic process that produces this combination that each, the sound and the concept, takes on a definite shape.…”

Aspectos semânticos e morfossintáticos da incorporação nominal

“…Entre esses dois extremos, teríamos o processo chamado pelo autor literalmente de incorporação (Einverleibung), processo este em que a língua trata a oração como uma única palavra. Esse processo foi chamado pelo autor de Einverleibungsmethode, segundo o qual o verbo da oração e seu complemento seriam tratados como uma única palavra (TRABANT, 1986).…”