Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

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

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

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 business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.

The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of the fact that linguistic signs are unrelated to what they designate and that, therefore, 'a' cannot designate anything without the the aid of 'b' and vice versa, or, in other words, that both have value only by the difference between them.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.