A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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Before Latin, there is a period which Greek and Slavic share in common. So this involves the history of language families, as and when relevant.Ferdinand de Saussure
In attempting to trace the history of a language, one will very soon find oneself obliged to trace the history of a language family.
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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.
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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.
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It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
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