Famous quotes containing the words language, morphology and/or pronouns:
“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
—Martin Heidegger (18891976)
“I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language.... To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”
—Frantz Fanon (19251961)
“In the meantime no sense in bickering about pronouns and other parts of blather.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)