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.
Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law - Ferdinand De Saussure
Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law
- Ferdinand De Saussure
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas... - Ferdinand De Saussure
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas...
Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass. - Ferdinand De Saussure
Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent. - Ferdinand De Saussure
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the … - Ferdinand De Saussure
In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the …
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other. - Ferdinand De Saussure
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes. - Ferdinand De Saussure
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. - Ferdinand De Saussure
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. - Ferdinand De Saussure
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
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