Written Forms Obscure Our View Of Language.

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.

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.

Any Psychology Of Sign Systems Will Be Part Of Social Psychology - That Is To Say, Will Be Exclusively Social; It Will Involve The Same Psychology As Is Applicable In The Case Of Languages.

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.

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.