Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Part I: Leibniz to Humboldt
5. Le voyage de Schreiten 3
6. Leibniz on Particles 31
7. Vulgaris opinio babelica 61
8. Leibniz and Wilhelm von Humboldt and the History of Comparative Linguistics 85
9. Die Säkularisierung des Tertium comparationis 103
10. Descent, Perfection and the Comparative Method since Leibniz 119
11. Part II: Humboldt and the Aftermath
12. Humboldt et Leibniz 135
13. The Philosophical and Anthropological Place of Wilhelm von Humboldt's Linguistic Typology 157
14. Wilhelm von Humboldt und das Problem der Schrift 181
15. Da Humboldt ai neogrammatici 199
16. Part III: Comparative Linguistics before and after Humboldt
17. Representation and the Place of Linguistic Change before Comparative Grammar 213
18. The Place of Friedrich Schlegel in the Development of Historical-Comparative Linguistics 239
19. Lautform, innere Sprachform, Form der Sprachen 263
20. Comparatismo e grammatica comparata 281
21. Afterword 301
22. Index Nominum 311
23. Index Rerum 319
24. Index Linguarum 327