“Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.”
Ferdinand de Saussure“Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.”
Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics“Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.”
Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics“Time changes all things”
there is no reason why language should escape this universal law