Monday 8 November 2010

etymology is the historical materialism of language

2 comments:

xtina said...

language does not consist of words, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these words stand

xtina said...

"As for the posited central kin-
ship of languages, it is marked by a distinctive convergence. Lan-
guages are not strangers to one another, but are, a priori and
apart from all historical relationships, interrelated in what they want to express."W.B.