Switzerland Quotes

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
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.
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.
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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.
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.
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
«first‹previous1011121314151617181920next›last»
Total Records : 1126

Related Books

Author Profile

Votes :
Rating :
AuthorName
Al McGuire
Profession
Coach
BirthDate
07 September, 1928
DeathDate
26 January, 2001
View Profile

Share to your friends..

Related Author

Abe Lemons Al Lopez Al McGuire Andy Reid Anne Donovan Barry Switzer Bear Bryant Ben Howland Bill Belichick Bill Bowerman Bill Laimbeer Bill Parcells Bo Schembechler Bobby Bowden Bobby Knight Brad Gilbert Bud Grant Bum Phillips Chuck Daly Chuck Noll
view more

Popular Topics

Attitude Death Inspirational Life Love Motivational Nature Positive