Without Language, Thought Is A Vague, Uncharted

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.

The Business, Task Or Object Of The Scientific Study Of Languages Will If Possible Be 1) To Trace The History Of All Known Languages. Naturally This Is Possible Only To A Very Limited Extent And For Very Few Languages.

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.

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.

Henceforth, Language Studies Were No Longer Directed Merely Towards Correcting Grammar.