“The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.” FirstsLanguageViewsPhilosophicalGreekPhasesGrammar Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
“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.” FirstsKindSubjectsSpeechRelationIndependentLinkages Author:Ferdinand de Saussure
