| Über Die Kawi-Sprache Auf Der Insel Java Contributor(s): Humboldt, Wilhelm Von (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108031536 ISBN-13: 9781108031530 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $76.94 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: German Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Southeast Asian Languages (see Also Vietnamese) |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 1.54" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (2.67 lbs) 774 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) was a German philologist, diplomat and philosopher. While Minister of Education he was responsible for reforming the Prussian education system. His pioneering achievements in linguistics influenced many later scholars including Chomsky. This monumental three-volume study of Kawi, a traditional formal and literary language of Java belonging to the Austronesian language family, was posthumously published in 1836-9. The manuscript was prepared for the press by J. K. E. Buschmann, a prot g of Humboldt's friend and colleague Bopp (also reissued in this series). Humboldt considered Kawi, which includes many Sanskrit loan-words, to be the common ancestor of all the Malayo-Polynesian languages, though this view is no longer accepted. Volume 1 begins with a preface by Humboldt's brother Alexander describing Wilhelm's extensive academic network, and reprints Wilhelm's famous 1836 essay on language, before focusing on the question of Indian (Sanskrit and Buddhist) influences on Javan language and society. |