Antoine Lavoisier Quotes

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.

Language is something that I take great interest in.

I know what the structure of the language is.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

English is a very expressive language.

I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

Language is a virus from outer space.

The ways in which language changes never ceases to interest me.

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

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

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.