The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is...#Ferdinand De Saussure
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried...#Ferdinand De Saussure
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus...#Ferdinand De Saussure
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be...#Ferdinand De Saussure
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in...#Ferdinand De Saussure
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do...#Ferdinand De Saussure
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational...#Ferdinand De Saussure
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest...#Ferdinand De Saussure
It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e....#Ferdinand De Saussure
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs...#Ferdinand De Saussure
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them...#Ferdinand De Saussure
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different...#Ferdinand De Saussure
