A Linguistic System Is A Series Of

Outside Speech, The Association That Is Made In The Memory Between Words Having Something In Common Creates Different Groups, Series, Families, Within Which Very Diverse Relations Obtain But Belonging To A Single Category: These Are Associative Relations.

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.

Within Speech, Words Are Subject To A Kind Of Relation That Is Independent Of The First And Based On Their Linkage: These Are Syntagmatic Relations, Of Which I Have Spoken.

Language Furnishes The Best Proof That A Law Accepted By A Community Is A Thing That Is Tolerated And Not A Rule To Which All Freely Consent.

Speech Has Both An Individual And A Social Side, And We Cannot Conceive Of One Without The Other.