Linguistics Accdg. to Linguists

Language is a “human essence”, making it a distinctive quality of mind that are unique only to men.

• Chomsky

• Bloomfield

• Sapir

• Saussure

• Lehmann

Human speech is different from signals and actions from animals.

• Chomsky

• Bloomfield

• Sapir

• Saussure

• Lehmann

The communication of meanings through sound is the foundation of the language system.

• Chomsky

• Bloomfield

• Sapir

• Saussure

• Lehmann

In human speech, different sounds have different meaning.

• Chomsky

• Bloomfield

• Sapir

• Saussure

• Lehmann

Language is the non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions, and desires.

• Chomsky

• Bloomfield

• Sapir

• Saussure

• Lehmann

Language has no logical or necessary relationship between the sound of the words and their meanings.

• Hockett

• Bloomfield

• Sapir

• Saussure

• Lehmann

Language is culturally transmitted.

• Hockett

• Bloomfield

• Sapir

• Saussure

• Lehmann

Language is a system of sign that expresses ideas.

• Hockett

• Bloomfield

• Sapir

• Saussure

• Lehmann

Language has three subsystems: semantic, syntactic, and phonological.

• Hockett

• Bloomfield

• Sapir

• Saussure

• Lehmann

There is an infinite number of utterances in human languages that they can understand and produce.

• Hockett

• Bloomfield

• Sapir

• Saussure

• Lehmann