Fundamentals of Language

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. When a quarter of a century separates us from the Prague International Conference, which broke the ground for general phonology. It is appropriate to survey the main problems of this discipline in its present stage. On the other hand, it was tempting to explore. Forty years after the publication of Saussure's Cours with its radical distinction between the syntagmatic and as sociative plane of language, what has been and can be drawn from this fundamental dichotomy.