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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
- Grammar
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
- Game
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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.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
- Critical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020