“It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.Quote by Ferdinand De SaussureTopics: Quotes about Ferdinand De SaussureShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of...#Ferdinand De Saussure
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them...#Ferdinand De Saussure
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be...#Ferdinand De Saussure
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to...#Ferdinand De Saussure
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus...#Ferdinand De Saussure
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs...#Ferdinand De Saussure
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.#Ferdinand De Saussure
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language...#Ferdinand De Saussure
