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Inner Linguistic Form: Parallels

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2010

Abstract

The presented article consists in three parts. The first one delineates German Neoromantic linguistics.

The second part is analyzing W. von Humboldt's view on "inner linguistic form"; whatever the result could be, it is without any doubt that W. von Humboldt's concept is aiming to articulate the languages as a dynamic whole. The third part is trying to detect various parallels and connexions to "inner linguistic form" not only in the field of linguistics.

The identified parallels may be summed up in following way: Inner linguistic form (W. von Humboldt, E. Cassirer, L.

Weisgerber), the so called conceptual categories, "ponjatijnyje kategorii" (I.I. Meščaninov, S.

D. Kacnel'son), fashions of speaking (B.

L. Whorf, J.

A. Lucy), architecture of language (Ľ.

Novák); all these concepts may be calibrated as constructs which are parallel in the measure in which they view the object under investigation in dynamic way.