The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Languages are true analytical methods.
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.
It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.