Edward Sapir Quote

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


Language (1921), p. 39


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

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

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

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