Overview
The project is dedicated to the creation of an historical-critical edition of the entire corpus of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s writings on language and linguistics and will focus attention for the first time on the vast body of Humboldt’s posthumous empirical studies of the world’s languages that have only recently been rediscovered. The edition will include in Section 1 (3 volumes) his early foundational writings on aesthetics, philology, anthropology, cultural and natural philosophy, and on language. Section 2 (2 volumes) is to contain Humboldt’s Basque studies, section 3 (6-7 volumes) his work on the American languages, Section 4 (2 volumes) his writings on general linguistics. Section 5 is devoted to Humboldt’s work on specific problems in individual European and non-European languages (2 volumes). Section 6 (5-6 volumes) will contain Humboldt’s work on the Pacific languages of the Austronesian language group and will include a critical edition of the Kavi-Work, his magnum opus. Section 7 is devoted to Humboldt’s scholarly and linguistic correspondence with European and non-European personalities (4 volumes) that will provide valuable insight into the historical and disciplinary contexts of his work.
The edition is published by the Schoeningh Verlag, Paderborn (Germany) and produced under the auspices of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences). The entire project sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council).
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