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.

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 linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas...

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

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.

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

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law