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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

W. Leopold
W. Leopold*
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Northwestern University
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Abstract

[Sketch of the use of this term. Marty's understanding of it, while not coinciding with v. Humboldt's usage, is an important contribution to linguistic thought. However, in Marty's sense it is better to speak of ‘bridge meanings’. The various other meanings that have been attached to the phrase ‘inner form’ had better be expressed by less ambiguous terms.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 5 , Issue 4-Part1 , December 1929 , pp. 254 - 260
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Copyright © 1929 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Cf. O. Funke, Innere Sprachform. Eine Einführung in A. Martys Sprachphilosophie. Reichenberg i/B. 1924.

2 Studien zur Geschichte der Sprachphilosophie 47 (Bern 1927).

3 Cp. W. v. Humboldt: Die sprachphilosophischen Werke, ed. Steinthal. Berlin 1883-84.

4 Funke, Innere Sprachform 121.

5 Main work: Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung der allgemeinen Grammatik und Sprachphilosophie. Halle 1908 (here cited by page only).

Also: Gesammelte Schriften, Halle 1916-1920 (here cited by volume, part, and page).

Other writings: see bibliographies in Funke's publications and in his articles in Englische Studien.

6 Cf. Sapir 17: ‘communication, which is the very object of speech’.

7 Untersuchungen 151, 156f.

8 Innere Sprachform 123.

9 Sprachphilosophie 62, 129.

10 I owe this extended application to a discussion with Professor Curme, who accepts my term.

11 It will be noted that the term ‘bridge’ itself is such a bridge.

12 Paul's terminology, Prinzipien §51. Cf. Marty's criticism, Untersuchungen 497 ff.

13 Professor Cassirer's incidental distinction between theoretical shades of meaning and emotional shades of appreciation (Philosophie der symbolischen Formen, 1. 273, Berlin 1923) might be developed into a fruitful extension of Marty's bridge principle.

14 Where Marty speaks of definitions (see index in Untersuchungen), he thinks of circumscriptive or analytic definitions, not of synonymic ones.