NET English Paper 3 June 2013 Q.49

49. In Words upon Words, Saussure says, “The actual birth of a new language has never reported in the world” because “we have never known of a language which was not spoken the day before or which was not spoken in the same way the day before”. What does he mean?

1. Old languages die making way for new ones.
2. The birth and death of a language are not subject to human laws.
3. Languages do not get borne, they evolve out of previously existing linguistic situations.
4. Old speech patterns trigger the birth of a new language.

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