Category: Language & Communication
“If we preserve in our histories of the world the names of those who are said to have discovered the physical elements—the names of Thales, and Anaximenes, and Empedocles—we ought not to forget the names of the discoverers of the elements of language—the founders of one of the...
“If we preserve in our histories of the world the names of those who are said to have discovered the physical elements—the names of Thales, and Anaximenes, and Empedocles—we oug...
4. CHAPTER II.“It is a law universally illustrated by organizations of every kind, that, in proportion as there is to be efficiency, there must be specialization, both of structure and functi...
5. CHAPTER III.Sciences may be classed as historical or physical according as they deal with the mind of man or with external nature. The forces and materials of nature remain always the same:...
6. CHAPTER IV.The skeleton of language is formed by those phonetic utterances into which significancy must be breathed before they can become living speech. They are the outward vestment of t...
7. CHAPTER V.“Rien n’autorise donc à admettre deux moments dans la création du langage: un premier moment, où il n’aurait eu que des radicaux, à la manière chinoise, et un second moment, où...
8. ii. 4 (1878), who maintains that the three primitive sounds were really_ĕ_, _ŏ_, _ă_, and not the indeterminate _a_¹, _a_², _a_³. On the other hand, an able article by De Saussure in the “Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris,” iii. 5 (18...