"Strictly speaking, the grammatical method of resolving a sentence into parts is nothing but a fanciful procedure ; but it is the real fountain of all knowledge, since it led to the invention of writing."
— John Rupert Firth

January 1, 1970

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Added on April 10, 2026
Unverified quote
0 likes
Linguists from England
Original Language: English

Sources

p. 15; As cited in: Angela Senis (2016) , "The contribution of John Rupert Firth to the history of linguistics and the rejection of the phoneme theory." Proceedings of ConSOLE XXIII 273.