Simples machines ou chambres noires ? Typologie et hiérarchie des langues entre xviiie et xixe siècles
Adam Smith and Giacomo Leopardi have made the criterion of complexity or simplicity the pivot for comparing languages. Through the same sources, mainly French, these two authors show us how adopting a hierarchical perspective or simply searching for common elements and differences between languages...
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Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage
2023-11-01
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Series: | Histoire Épistémologie Langage |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/hel/4459 |