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It is useful to the historian,...

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.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

It is only since linguistics h...

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

It is one of the aims of lingu...

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

In general, the philological m...

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Everyone, left to his own devi...

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

In fact, from then on scholars...

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

I'm almost never serious, and ...

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 Saussure 68 quotes

Nearly all institutions, it mi...

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

The connection between the sig...

The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

The critical principle demande...

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

In fact, from then on scholars...

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Within speech, words are subje...

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Whitney wanted to eradicate th...

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Outside speech, the associatio...

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Before Latin, there is a perio...

Before Latin, there is a period which Greek and Slavic share in common.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

So this involves the history o...

So this involves the history of language families, as and when relevant.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Before Latin, there is a perio...

Before Latin, there is a period which Greek and Slavic share in common. So this involves the history of language families, as and when relevant.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

In attempting to trace the his...

In attempting to trace the history of a language, one will very soon find oneself obliged to trace the history of a language family.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

The first of these phases is t...

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

It is only since linguistics h...

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

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