Book review
On Language: The diversity of human language-structure and its influence on the mental development of mankind. Translated by Wilhelm Von HumboldtPeter HeathHans Aarsleff.
.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. lxviii, 296. pp.

Reviewed by Paul R. Sweet
Michigan State University
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