Linguistics began to concentrate on describing single languages at one particular point in time. If any one person can be held responsible for this change of emphasis was the Swiss scholar who is sometimes labelled "the father of modern linguistics" Ferdinand de Saussure
De Saussure's crucial contribution was his explicit and reiterated statement that all language items are essentially interlinked. This was an aspect of language which had not been stressed before. Nobody had seriously examined the relationship of each element to all the others.
His insistence that language is carefully built structure of interwoven elements initiated the era of structural linguistics.
De Saussure's crucial contribution was his explicit and reiterated statement that all language items are essentially interlinked. This was an aspect of language which had not been stressed before. Nobody had seriously examined the relationship of each element to all the others.
His insistence that language is carefully built structure of interwoven elements initiated the era of structural linguistics.
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