Quote by Harold Evans

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a…

— Noam Chomsky

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest,…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

— Marshall Ganz

“Lacking a verb, a nominal sentence has no built-in reference to the speaker or the occasion of speaking. Accordingly, nominal sentences are best suited…

— Alfred Mollin and Robert Williamson

“[According to Peirce] ‘The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth,…

— Louis Menand

“Parellelism: Concrete Nouns and Action Nouns”

— Manhattan GMAT Prep

“Terms swarm up to tempt me in the course of this description: Greek Orthodox, Romanesque, flying buttress, etc. These guessing words I find junked…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes”

— Grabe

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

— Francis Bacon

Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive,…

— Doris Lessing

It is by metaphor that language grows.

— Julian Jaynes

“It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of…

— Italo Calvino