Correcting Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure

I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years…

— Robert Burchfield

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning…

— Edward Sapir

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All…

— Edward Sapir

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

— Amos Bronson Alcott

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

— H. G. Wells

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…

— Red Smith

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but…

— Noam Chomsky

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific…

— Roman Jakobson

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

— Edwin Newman

“Like many things that are claimed as Western inventions, grammar was first practiced in the East. According to scholars, there is a rich tradition…

— Kory Stamper