17 июля 2013 г., 11:33
Chapter 7 How much is... «Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction »
Chapter 7
How much is systematic?
To say that languages are systems is in principle to draw a line around what we are studying. ‘Everything that forms a system is linguistics; what is not a system isn’t language.’ A line drawn in another way might nevertheless include much that is far less obviously determinate.
