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 possi...

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.

quote by Ferdinand de Saussure
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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