It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.

What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.