Schmidt, Gerhart2012-06-202012-06-202012Lingua ac Communitas, 2012, vol. 22, s. 5-14.1230-3143http://hdl.handle.net/10593/2799What is the origin of language? Herder says, the word makes the man from the animal, but it should be a natural process. The author writes about the pointing at somebody/something as distinction between “being” and “nothing”. This action gets more and more symbolic. The pointing turned into names and grammatical structure. It becomes at last languageplHerderOrigine of language as pointing at sb/sthArtykuł