Humboldt's concept of 'Form' is to be interpreted from three viewpoints as Eugenio Coseriu pointed out.
Firstly his concept of 'Form' is to be applied to language and to the relation of language to extralinguistic reality in the most general meaning...
Humboldt's concept of 'Form' is to be interpreted from three viewpoints as Eugenio Coseriu pointed out.
Firstly his concept of 'Form' is to be applied to language and to the relation of language to extralinguistic reality in the most general meaning of the 'Form'.
Secondly, the concept of 'Form' is to be applied to an individual language as well as to the relation of an individual language to extralinguistic reality. In this respect, every individual language is a 'Form'.
Finally, his concept of 'Form' is to be applied to the intralinguistic reality between individual language and the principles which are on the basis of the phenomena.
My aim is to verify the above-mentioned three viewpoints through the quotations from his book 'Einleitung zum Kawi-Werke'.