Podcast episode 6: Schleicher’s morphology and Steinthal’s Völkerpsychologie

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History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences

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In this episode, we look first at August Schleicher’s proposal for a linguistic “morphology” and its intellectual background in nineteenth-century biology. We then compare Schleicher’s approach to the scheme of language classification developed by H. Steinthal within Völkerpsychologie, or “psychology…Read more ›