On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and Its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species

By B. Nerlich, W. Humboldt, M. Losonsky, P. Heath. 2001

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Local Relation Networks for Image Recognition (2019, background): “Humans have a remarkable ability to “see the infinite world with finite means” [27, 2].”
On the Binding Problem in Artificial Neural Networks (2020, background): “Productivity refers to the capacity of language to “make infinite use of finite means” (von Humboldt, 1999), i.e. the ability to form and understand a theoretically unbounded number of entirely novel sentences given only limited vocabulary and training.”
Weighing up the evidence for sound symbolism: Distributional properties predict cue strength (2017, background): “As Von Humboldt (1836) put it, the sounds ‘‘produce for the ear an impression similar to that of the object upon the soul” (p. 73).”
The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky (2007, background): “…of von Humboldt and Levy-Bruhl, as well as the writings of his Russian contemporaries Potebnya and Shpet, that primitive languages were relatively simple with restricted, often concrete vocabularies lacking in superordinate terms and simple grammars (Levy-Bruhl, 1910/1926; von Humboldt, 1836/1988).”