“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.” ShouldKindDifferentFactsGamesLanguageTermWonderFailingConnectionsCompareEngagedEngagementScholarConcrete Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
“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.” DifferentSpiritLanguageStudyIssuesMovementSourceTraditionalInstanceRelevantGrammarLinguisticsInscriptionsLinguists Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
“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.” DifferentAbleFormLanguageCarrieHistorianChanges Over Time Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
“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.” MadeDifferentMemoriesCommonGroupsSpeechRelationSeriesBelongingCategoriesAssociationDiverse Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
“The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.” DifferentPrinciplesPeriodsHistoricalCriticalInstanceContributionExaminationLinguisticsLinguistsEmbarking Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
